30 Years of Donald Knuth's 'Christmas Lectures' Go Online - Including 2023's

"It's like visiting an old friend for the holidays," according to this article:Approaching his 86th birthday, Donald Knuth - Stanford's beloved computer science guru - honored what's become a long-standing tradition. He gave a December "Christmas lecture" that's also streamed online for all of his fans... More than 60 years ago, back in 1962, a 24-year-old Donald Knuth first started writing The Art of Computer Programming - a comprehensive analysis of algorithms which, here in 2023, he's still trying to finish. And 30 years ago Knuth also began making rare live appearances each December in front of audiences of Stanford students... Recently Stanford uploaded several decades of Knuth's past Christmas lectures, along with a series of 22 videos of Knuth from 1985 titled "the 'Aha' Sessions'" (courses in mathematical problem-solving). There are also two different sets of five videos from 1981 showing Knuth introducing his newly-created typesetting system TeX. There are even 12 videos from 1982 of what Knuth calls "an intensive course about the internal details." And on Dec. 6, wearing his traditional brown holiday sweater, Knuth gave yet another live demonstration of the beautifully clear precision that's made him famous.

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