{"id":8873,"date":"2014-05-25T21:25:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T01:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8873"},"modified":"2016-03-08T09:46:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T14:46:28","slug":"twenty-questions-for-donald-knuth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/25\/twenty-questions-for-donald-knuth\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Questions for Donald Knuth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informit.com\/articles\/article.aspx?p=2213858&amp;WT.mc_id=Author_Knuth_20Questions\">Informit<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drdrang\/status\/469925334532780032\">Dr. Drang<\/a>):<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.informit.com\/articles\/article.aspx?p=2213858&amp;WT.mc_id=Author_Knuth_20Questions\"><p>To celebrate the publication of the eBooks of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informit.com\/promotions\/impact-of-the-art-of-computer-programming-139881\">The Art of Computer Programming, <\/a><\/em> (TAOCP),  we asked several computer scientists, contemporaries, colleagues, and well-wishers to pose one question each to author Donald E. Knuth. Here are his answers. <\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Informit (via Dr. Drang): To celebrate the publication of the eBooks of The Art of Computer Programming, (TAOCP), we asked several computer scientists, contemporaries, colleagues, and well-wishers to pose one question each to author Donald E. Knuth. Here are his answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[289,63,263,896,166,71,897],"class_list":["post-8873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-algorithm","tag-book","tag-theory","tag-donald-knuth","tag-ebooks","tag-programming","tag-tex"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13788,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873\/revisions\/13788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}