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Donald E. Knuth (), Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University.
Father of The Art of Computer Programming and $\mathrm{\TeX}$ as two achievements only in a myriad (including MMIX for TAOCP or METAFONT for $\mathrm{\TeX}$), a purist, a craftsman of the intellectual, a brilliant computer scientist and coder and mind bogglingly productive author, the ultimate model of geekiness when this tends to infinity, he is aptly nicknamed the Euler of computer science~[1].
Allegedly, according to geekchic (copied here for backup as the link occasionally went broken):
I've seen watched Silver Streak. It's a strange movie to have as a favorite, but it's certainly worth an evening.