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From: "Kieren MacMillan" <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca>
To: "David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org>
> I don't think that the "last bugs" category can be
> closed while Donald Knuth is alive
In January 2009, I presented one of my mathematical papers at a conference
in San Francisco.
Much to my surprise, at one of the other sessions I attended (on the
mathematics origami), Mr Knuth sat
next to me. We struck up a small conversation, prompted by me telling him
that I referenced his paper in the
one I had just presented. Ultimately, I told him thanks — on behalf of
everyone — for TeX.
He seems like a wonderful man.
Cheers,
Kieren.
I had a similar experience travelling to a conference in Washington. I was
reading Simon Singh's book "The secret history of codes and code breaking"
in my hotel room the evening before the conference, and had just got to the
section on asymmetric key encryption. I was working hard to understand it,
and admiring Diffie and Hellman's work. Something made me pick up the
programme to see who was speaking the next day, and the first speaker was
none other than Whit Diffie. I had a great "we are not worthy" experience
then and next day when I met him.
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Phil Holmes
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