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Fredrik Kjolstad

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

BioFredrik Kjolstad is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Stanford University. He works on topics in compilers, programming models, and systems, with an emphasis on compiler techniques that make high-level languages portable. He has received the NSF CAREER Award, the MIT EECS Sprowls PhD Thesis Award in Computer Science, the Tau Beta Phi 2024 Teaching Honor Roll, the Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Awards, and several distinguished paper awards.

Contact Info
- 353 JANE STANFORD WAY
- STANFORD, California 94305
Mail Code: 9040
kjolstad@stanford.edu

Other Names:

Fred Kjoelstad

Donald Knuth

Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus

BioDonald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.

He is the author of the multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming and has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms. He contributed to the development of the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it. In the process he also popularized the asymptotic notation. In addition to fundamental contributions in several branches of theoretical computer science, Knuth is the creator of the TeX computer typesetting system, the related METAFONT font definition language and rendering system, and the Computer Modern family of typefaces.

As a writer and scholar,[4] Knuth created the WEB and CWEB computer programming systems designed to encourage and facilitate literate programming, and designed the MIX/MMIX instruction set architectures. As a member of the academic and scientific community, Knuth is strongly opposed to the policy of granting software patents. He has expressed his disagreement directly to the patent offices of the United States and Europe. (via Wikipedia)