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This is a late entry, but I was in Waterloo over the weekend so I’m just getting to this now. :)

It was Donald Knuth’s 70th birthday this past Thursday (January 10th). Anyone who studied Computer Science will probably already know who Knuth is. He is the author of one of the most important book in CS, The Art of Computer Programming. In this book, Knuth covers algorithms stretching from sorting and searching, to graphs and networks. He is also the person who popularized the beloved big-O notation that we use in algorithm analysis.

The field of Computer Science would not be the same without Knuth, so here’s to a happy belated 70th birthday! :)

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