Levi's Lisp Log

Guy Steele

Bookpool.com, an online computer bookseller, has put together a section where computer book authors list their favorite computer books from the last ten years. I wasn't familiar with many of the participating authors, but I was pleased to find Guy Steele among them.

His list of favorite books reveals a lot about him, and I hope to pick up some of them. The list is pretty well-rounded, from Knuth's Computers & Typesetting collection to The Annotated Alice and The Art of the Incredibles. Interesting stuff!

Brief Bio of Donald Knuth

Certainly one of the most revered of Computer Science's "founding fathers" is Donald Knuth, author of The Art of Computer Programming and the TeX document typesetting language. This month's Stanford Magazine ran a beautiful biography of Knuth, which briefly outlines his personality and achievements. It's a good read, and makes me hope that he will have many more years with us.