"All Questions Answered" by Donald Knuth

Google Tech Talk (more info below)
March 24, 2011

Presented by Donald Knuth.

ABSTRACT

Bill Coughran, senior vice president engineering at Google, hosts a Q&A session with Stanford Professor Donald Knuth.

More about Donald Knuth:
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• google tech talk
• computer science
• TeX

[bigbold2]

Donald frickin Knuth in the room and look at all the people still tapping away on their notebooks. What would it take? The Queen of England?

[arthas702]

His tongue is not able to follow his brain

[dashwinterson]

@okosenkov true, but I think knuth got the joke

[okosenkov]

So, a guy at 29:25 mentioning about "Not scale very well". What an arrogant person. Who did he make fun of, himself? I'd like to see him scale well in 30 years from now.

[guygallagher410]

This vid went viral on Libya

[frederikcreemers]

I like his writing better than his speaking, because of the stuttering, it gets hard to concentrate on the content, but I still have very deep respect for a man so smart, and still so friendly.

[snip3r416]

 the OLD Guy stderring or is it b/c hes OLD

[codycalhoun13]

This video went viral on Ljubljana

[iamliurui2]

Don is so humorous

[ivankaramasov]

@patiencebear He is not a brilliant mathematician. In fact, he has not made any contributions to mathematics as far as I know. He is a computer scientist. Although I have to say that he is just as bad a lecturer as some famous mathematicians.

[DCWhatthe]

One of the great things about Don, is that his love for his subject hasn't diminished with age. He recorded a video called 'Fun with Binary Decision Diagrams', and you can just feel all the intense passion & connection he has with his topics.

[georgepowell]

He doesn't talk as well as he writes. That's a shame.

[purple9414]

did he come up with the software called latex?

[Funtasmia]

33:55 GET YOUR HAND OFF YOUR POCKET WHEN YOU ARE TALKING TO MR.DONALD! :D

[patiencebear]

@bigbold2 Someone who gets a streight sentence out in less than two minutes I guess. He's a brilliant mathematic but after seeing this I wonder how bad his presenting style is during lectures.

[StoneCypher]

@StoneCypher Er, with respect to the bit at 14:20 or so, about substrings of the binary representation of integers being at least in one form always summable to a power of two. Sorry about the loss of context.

[StoneCypher]

There is a single counterexample: zero.

There is no phrasing of 0 whose substrings may be added to any power of two (remember, 2^0 is 1, not 0.)

[bearchildofdeath]

@bigbold2 *cringes*

There is no Queen of England!

[MrFrancoisBoucher]

@nwb954 certainly, you are not among them.

[jjpcondor]

Google Maps GPS coordinates used to work ... 

[nwb954]

@bigbold2

no

I think some might still be busy with the other tool that they have with a women around cs folks

[meterdatamanagement]

thanks for the wide spectrum

[carlostinonsa]

Oh I hope Donald is not having problems with his verbality, but damn, he's aging.

[pyrrho314]

@bigbold2 : lol, off with their laptops!

[Martyeffinmar]

I love him!