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Rendezvous with the Don !

Its 4 a.m in the morning. I haven’t slept in 24 hours. I am still wondering if this is a dream or a dream within a dream.Without much ado, I have just listened to for more than an hour and spoke a word to Donald Ervine Knuth himself, albeit over the telephone on the wrong side of the Atlantic. It was the Don’s Lecture at Sun’s Menlo Park campus on Valentine’s Day and I sneaked in with a friend.

Euphoria is very hard to describe … I will stop !

P.S: I am on a scheduled break from blogging. But this was far too tempting to resist. The transcript of his talk and more details may appear at a later date :-)

Filed under: Computer Science, DEK

2 Responses

  1. Joe Steeve says:

    WOW. How did you manage that?

  2. [...] from Valentine’s Day Posted in General by Ananth on the April 6, 2008 Here are the said notes from Knuth’s lecture on Valentine’s Day 2008. There was no specific topic that the Don [...]

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