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anyone care to elaborate on this (from the bottom of the page under Public Lectures): Wednesday, 30 June, at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco (some
by opoloqo 17y ago
anyone care to elaborate on this (from the bottom of the page under Public Lectures):
Wednesday, 30 June, at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco (some time in the afternoon) speaking (and making an Earthshaking Announcement) at TeX's 32nd Anniversary Celebration, on the final day of the TUG 2010 Conference
- jacquesm 17y agoRetirement ?
- opoloqo 17y agothat's not very fun. I was thinking something more along the lines of "the rumors are true I am an alien and here is my spaceship". that would be earthshaking
- jacquesm 17y agoHm. But less likely! Recording contract? Knuth plays Bach on the organ!: http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~knuth/duets.html http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~knuth/duets.html
- jacobolus 17y agoHe’s been retired since 1993.
- jacquesm 17y agoYou don't say, someone that is 72 that has already retired... whoosh.
- jacobolus 17y agoSorry. I first assumed you were joking, but then I re-read the context, and I gave your sense of humor the benefit of the doubt. :P It’s not wholly unprecedented for professors to keep teaching to quite an advanced age. Harvey Mansfield, for instance, whose class I took a couple years ago, is 78.
- jacquesm 17y agoI spent quite a bit of time reading up on Donald Knuth, have his books on my shelves here (second copy, first one got misplaced during an emigration). He's a very interesting man with lots of depth outside of our field as well, especially in music. The retirement was sort of half way because I think he really is pushing himself very hard for someone that advanced in age, but I can see how he would like to complete his magnum opus in the foreseeable future.
- NikkiA 17y agoOpen-sourcing the .tex for the first 3 volumes?
- eric_t 17y agoA new and improved TeX?
- mhansen 17y agoRelease of version pi?
- weaksauce 17y agoI think the earthshaking announcement was that he is actually going to finish the next book in the AOCP series. I know that he is very painstaking in making the books and it was widely thought that he will not finish them before he passes. Hopefully he has that much left in him as they are the canonical references for the subjects he writes.