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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 intellect, a brilliant computer scientist, the supreme coder and a mind bogglingly productive author, the ultimate model of geekiness when this tends to infinity, he has been aptly nicknamed "the Euler of computer science"~[1].
I met him for the first (and so far only) time on 26, May (2009), in Oxford, at the occasion of a seminar he was giving (on priority sampling). He signed my volume 2 of TAOCP.
Allegedly, according to geekchic (copied here for backup as the link occasionally went broken):
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I've watched Silver Streak. It's a strange movie to have as a favorite, but it's certainly worth an evening.
An interesting footnote in volume 4's pre-fascicle 6A: