The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A coming in hardcover later this year

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opoloqo2• 17 years ago

anyone care to elaborate on this (from the bottom of the page under Public Lectures):

Wednesday, 30 June, at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco (some time in the afternoon) speaking (and making an Earthshaking Announcement) at TeX's 32nd Anniversary Celebration, on the final day of the TUG 2010 Conference

jacquesm4• 17 years ago

Retirement ?

opoloqo2• 17 years ago

that's not very fun. I was thinking something more along the lines of "the rumors are true I am an alien and here is my spaceship". that would be earthshaking

jacobolus2• 17 years ago

He’s been retired since 1993.

NikkiA• 17 years ago

Open-sourcing the .tex for the first 3 volumes?

eric_t• 17 years ago

A new and improved TeX?

mhansen• 17 years ago

Release of version pi?

weaksauce• 17 years ago

I think the earthshaking announcement was that he is actually going to finish the next book in the AOCP series. I know that he is very painstaking in making the books and it was widely thought that he will not finish them before he passes. Hopefully he has that much left in him as they are the canonical references for the subjects he writes.

jackfoxy• 17 years ago

Outstanding! I think I'll pick one up, when available. No hint of a schedule for vols 4b, 4c (and possibly d), or 5.

klaut• 17 years ago

the volumne 4 fascicle 1 (Bitwise Tricks & Techniques) can be found and downloaded from safari o'reily. have no idea about the others, though.

jmount• 17 years ago

I would have to say I am less excited about the topics promised in Volume 4 (supposedly Combinatorial Algorithms, but way too much time in the Facicles is spent on explicit enumeration) than those found in Volumes 1 (Fundamental Algorithms), Volume 2 (Seminumerical Algorithms) and Volume 3 (Search and and Sorting). I grew up with "The Art of Computer Programming," but I think not all of the volumes are equal or have aged similarly. For example Volume 2 now can be seen to fail to anticipate a lot of exciting results in pseudo-randomness, quasi-randomness and de-randomization. On the other hand Volume 3 is, due to our current obsession with search, possibly even more exciting than the day it was new.

The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A coming in hardcover later this year

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