Yes, I was a freshman in 1959 and while I never met Don Knuth, I heard plenty of stories about him. He was given free reign of the new computer center.
73, Don W3FPR On 3/11/2012 1:52 AM, Pete Michaelis - N8TR wrote: > Don, > > When I started work at NASA's Lewis Research Center in the early 60's > we often went to seminars at Case. Local legend had it that in one of > Dr Green's classes he presented a research problem that he himself > was working on and told the class that anyone solving it would be > awarded a master's degree along with his BS. Donald E Knuth > (author of the famous "The Art of Computer Programming" series of books) > was in the class and solved the problem ( and got his BS& MS in 1960). > Did that happen while you were there? I know that this is way off topic but I > have always been curious if that actually occurred. > > 73 Pete - N8TR > > At 08:40 PM 3/10/2012, Don Wilhelm wrote: ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
