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Oral History of Donald Knuth Part 1
A roughly three-hour Computer History Museum oral history interview of Donald Knuth by Edward Feigenbaum, recorded in 2007. Knuth covers his family, music, early programming, his thesis, The Art of Computer Programming, and the detour into TeX and METAFONT.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a superb, personal long-form look at Knuth's life and work habits.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Computer History Museum
- Topic
- donald knuth biography
- Format
- interview
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I recommend this video to you: Oral History of Donald Knuth Part 1 and 2: [VIDEO] on The Computer History Museum Youtube channel. It's a _really_ long interview, +7 hours. But it's also superb. He is interviewed by his friend and colleague Edward Feigenbaum who …
kontorStol on Hacker News · 2019-05
In I Got a Knuth Check for 0x$3.00Donald Knuth interviews are so interesting, but would like to particularly highlight this little piece of advice, out of this great playlist: "Donald Knuth - My advice to young people": [LINK] Complete Playlist - "Donald Knuth (Computer scientist)" [97 videos]: [LINK] Also the "Oral History …
belter on Hacker News · 2022-05
In Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happiness (2020)
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