Éléments pour une histoire de l'informatique

This translation focuses on publications by Donald E. Knuth, one of the world's leading computer programmers, that were addressed primarily to a general audience rather than to specialists. These fifteen papers discuss the history of computer science from ancient Babylon to modern times and survey the field of computer science and the nature of algorithms.

Donald E. Knuth is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science emeritus at Stanford University.

July 2011

Books by Donald E. Knuth at CSLI Publications:

• Companion to the papers of Donald Knuth
• Selected Papers on Fun and Games
• Selected Papers on Design of Algorithms
• Selected Papers on Discrete Mathematics
• Selected Papers on Computer Languages
• Selected Papers on Analysis of Algorithms
• Digital Typography
• Selected Papers on Computer Science
• Literate Programming
• Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
• Algorithmes (in French)
• Éléments pour une histoire de l'informatique (in French)

Professor Knuth's Computer Musings