Computers

Medium long, deep interview, mostly about TeX, fonts, typography; some about Literate Programming, processors: MMIX, Transmeta, Pentium. Gives a good sense of the man.

Author page: brief biography, links to all his books, interview.

Growing article, with many links to related topics. [Wikipedia]

Biography of the great scientist by Nikolai Bezroukov.

Brief, insightful, pure text; Addison-Wesley Professional.

Covers open source success, multicore architecture problems, disappointing lack of interest in literate programming, reusable code menace, and urban legend about a programming contest win with one compilation. InformIT. (April 25, 2008)

Interview with Knuth, National Public Radio, by David Kestenbaum. (March 14, 2005)

Since the 1960s, Knuth has been writing the sacred text of computer programming. He's a little behind schedule, but he has an excuse: he took time out to reinvent digital typography. By Steve Ditlea. Technology Review. (October 01, 1999)

Danny Yee reviews first 3 volumes of Knuth's magnum opus. (January 01, 1998)