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  • svat39 days ago
    Every year Knuth gives a Christmas lecture in early December, and every year (at least the last few years) David Cassel writes a blog post about it; here is this year&#x27;s: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thenewstack.io&#x2F;donald-knuths-2025-christmas-lecture-the-knights-tours&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thenewstack.io&#x2F;donald-knuths-2025-christmas-lecture-...</a>
    • xeonmc39 days ago
      One could say these are the compsci counterpart of the Queen&#x27;s Christmas Speeches.
  • vismit200045 days ago
    Lectures archive: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;online.stanford.edu&#x2F;donald-e-knuth-lectures" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;online.stanford.edu&#x2F;donald-e-knuth-lectures</a>
    • leoc39 days ago
      The Stanford linkrot bandits have struck again I’m afraid.
      • svat38 days ago
        For what it&#x27;s worth (and though I do have some complaints about stanfordonline), the URL <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;online.stanford.edu&#x2F;donald-e-knuth-lectures" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;online.stanford.edu&#x2F;donald-e-knuth-lectures</a> works fine for me.
      • JKCalhoun39 days ago
        The YouTube channel seems to have them: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PL94E35692EB9D36F3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PL94E35692EB9D36F3</a>
        • leoc38 days ago
          Thanks for that. They seem to have been embarrassed into putting the stanford.edu page back up for another few months. I think my <i>first</i> encounter with Stanford&#x27;s website archival policies was when I found that they&#x27;d shot an old, once-much-hyped interview with Alvy Ray Smith into the void: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28064844">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28064844</a> . Anything on the Stanford website which purports to be education or history is a marketing op wearing a smiling mask. That in itself would be largely fine, but when the marketing objectives have been met they&#x27;ll delete everything with what seems to be a contemptuous glee, refusing to even use the Wayback Machine. Doesn&#x27;t say much for that institution.
  • hcfman39 days ago
    As I had never seem an image of Don Knuth before, my head always pulls up an image of Don Knotts whenever I see his name :)<p>I guess that will change now.
    • leoc38 days ago
      For good measure you might as well see what the young Knuth looked like, too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dhh8Ao4yweQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dhh8Ao4yweQ</a> .
      • hcfman38 days ago
        Good move. They look quite different.