Welcome to the blog of Can Sar, a Stanford CS major. This blog is made up of my thoughts on Computer Science and the computer industry, as well as ever exciting tales from my life.
Today Donald Knuth had one of his famous musings on Computer Science. The topic was mathematical notation, which was very interesting, even though I am not a math major. The topic was also a lot simpler than the proof that Knuth presented in his last lecture, which was incomprehensible for me and most of my friends, and it seemed that even Knuth was slightly confused, mostly because he was skipping parts of the proof, and forgot what he was doing.
After the talk I bought Knuth's new book and bought a copy that I had him sign afterwards. He also gave us dozons of papers that he didn't need anymore that we could just take home with us for free.
But as if this were not enough, Stanford also decided to release Knuth's talks on Stanford Online. For now not all of the talks are online, but the ones that are, are extremely fascinating (Analysis of Algorithms, MMIX, Tree algorithms). I'm looking forward to watching the lectures as soon as I have more free time.