Donald Knuth Lectures

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1 Stanford Lecture: TeX For Beginners - Session 1 (Donald Ervin Knuth on February 23, 1981) 1:01:59 2019-01-10
2 Stanford Lecture: TeX For Beginners - Session 2 (February 24, 1981) 56:57 2019-01-10
3 Stanford Lecture: TeX For Beginners - Session 3 (February 26, 1981) 1:04:49 2019-01-10
4 Stanford Lecture: TeX For Beginners - Session 4 (February 25, 1981) 1:02:06 2019-01-10
5 Stanford Lecture: TeX For Beginners - Session 5 (February 27, 1981) 16:27 2019-01-10
6 Stanford Lecture: Advanced TeXarcana - Session 1 (March 2, 1981) 1:00:26 2019-01-10
7 Stanford Lecture: Advanced TeXarcana - Session 2 (March 3, 1981) 1:01:54 2019-01-10
8 Stanford Lecture: Advanced TeXarcana - Session 3 (March 4, 1981) 1:06:26 2019-01-10
9 Stanford Lecture: Advanced TeXarcana - Session 4 (March 5, 1981) 1:04:23 2019-01-10
10 Stanford Lecture: Advanced TeXarcana - Session 5 (March 6, 1981) 1:00:43 2019-01-10
11 Stanford Lecture: Can computers help produce beautiful books? (December 1, 1987) 1:01:33 2019-01-10
12 Stanford Lecture: Robert W Floyd, In Memoriam (March 20, 2002) 1:07:07 2019-01-10
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14 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - All Questions Answered (May 12, 2011) 1:08:51 2011-05-17
15 Stanford Lecture: 2014 Kailath Lecture: Stanford Professor Donald Knuth 52:50 2014-05-30
16 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth—"(3/2)-ary Trees" (2014) 1:16:16 2014-12-04
17 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth—"Universal Commafree Codes" (2015) 1:16:59 2015-12-11
18 Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth—"Hamiltonian Paths in Antiquity" (2016) 1:11:47 2017-01-20
19 Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth—"Dancing Links" (2018) 1:30:25 2018-12-12
20 Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth—"A Conjecture That Had To Be True" (2017) 1:07:02 2017-12-08
21 Stanford Lecture - Don Knuth: The Analysis of Algorithms (2015, recreating 1969) 54:25 2017-01-24
22 Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth—"Hamiltonian Paths in Antiquity" (2016) (360 Degrees) 1:11:47 2017-01-20
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24 Stanford Lecture: "The MMIX Architecture Simulator: A Testbed for Buzzword-Compliant Pipelines" 1:37:15 2019-01-10
25 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "MMIX: A RISC Computer for the New Millennium" (February 9, 1999) 1:23:48 2019-01-10
26 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Trees and Alphabetic Codes" (1998) 1:17:01 2019-01-10
27 Stanford Lecture: "Constructing Bubblesort at Random: One-Dimensional Particle Physics" 1:04:28 2019-01-10
28 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Fast Input/Output with Many Disks, Using a Magic Trick" 1:09:28 2019-01-10
29 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Lattices of Trees, Part I" (1997) 1:15:07 2019-01-10
30 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "35 years of (Linear) Probing" (October 29, 1997) 1:11:02 2019-01-10
31 Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth—"The Associative Law, or the Anatomy of Rotations in Binary Trees" 1:10:16 2019-01-10
32 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Experiments with Digital Halftones" 1:12:25 2019-01-10
33 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Spanning Trees and Aspects" (2009) 1:24:57 2019-01-10
34 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth—"Fun With Zero-Suppressed Binary Decision Diagrams (ZDDs)" (2008) 1:33:00 2019-01-10
35 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Fun With Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs)" (June 5, 2008) 1:41:53 2019-01-10
36 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Sideways Heaps" (2007) 1:18:01 2019-01-10
37 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Cool Graphs" (June 6, 2007) 1:26:31 2019-01-10
38 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Trees, Rivers, and RNA" (2006) 1:24:01 2019-01-10
39 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Platologic Computation" (October 24, 2006) 1:32:53 2019-01-10
40 Donald Knuth - "Integer Partitions and Set Partitions: A Marvelous Connection" (May 6, 2005) 1:30:27 2019-01-10
41 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Sand Piles and Spanning Trees" (2004) 1:40:19 2019-01-10
42 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Hooray for Probability Theory" (October 29, 2004) 1:36:16 2019-01-10
43 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Finding All Spanning Trees" (2003) 1:22:24 2019-01-10
44 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Notation" (October 17, 2003) 1:29:25 2019-01-10
45 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Chains of Subsets" (2002) 1:18:25 2019-01-10
46 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Trees, Forests, and Polyominoes" (2000) 1:25:14 2019-01-10
47 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "The Joy of Asymptotics" (May 30, 2000) 1:08:43 2019-01-10
48 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Dancing Links" (February 22, 2000) 1:35:05 2019-01-10
49 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth—"Planar Graphs and Ternary Trees" (2013) 1:21:37 2013-12-12
50 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Trees and chordal graphs" (2012) 1:14:53 2012-12-18
51 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Bayesian trees and BDDs" (2011) 1:13:50 2011-12-09
52 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth—"Why Pi?"(2010) 1:39:33 2011-09-06
53 Stanford Lecture: CS144C classroom lecture about disk storage and B-trees 54:37 2019-01-10
54 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 1 - Monotonic squares - Part 1 48:14 2019-01-10
55 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 1 - Monotonic squares - Part 2 1:05:49 2019-01-10
56 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 1 - Monotonic squares - Part 3 1:18:41 2019-01-10
57 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 1 - wrapup, Problem 2 - Code Breaking Part 1 56:57 2019-01-10
58 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 2 - Code Breaking Part 2 1:19:41 2019-01-10
59 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 2 - Code Breaking Part 3 1:20:20 2019-01-10
60 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 2 - Code Breaking Part 4 55:05 2019-01-10
61 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 2 - Code Breaking Part 5 20:22 2019-01-10
62 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 2 - Code Breaking Wrap Up 1:19:37 2019-01-10
63 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 3 - Hardware fault detection Part 1 58:09 2019-01-10
64 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 3 - Hardware fault detection Part 2 19:14 2019-01-10
65 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 3 - Hardware fault detection Part 3 1:13:16 2019-01-10
66 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 3 - Hardware fault detection Part 4 1:14:02 2019-01-10
67 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 3 - Hardware fault detection Part 5 58:44 2019-01-10
68 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 3 - Hardware fault detection Part 6 13:46 2019-01-10
69 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 3 - Hardware fault detection Part 7 1:14:52 2019-01-10
70 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 3 - Wrap Up, Problem 4 - Distributed stability Part 1 1:05:29 2019-01-10
71 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 4 - Distributed stability Part 2 1:14:25 2019-01-10
72 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 4 - Distributed stability Part 3 1:13:36 2019-01-10
73 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 4 - Distributed stability Wrap Up 1:08:08 2019-01-10
74 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 5 - Final Art Projects 1:22:09 2019-01-10
75 Stanford Lecture: "Aha" Sessions - Problem 5 - High-tech art Part 2 1:10:45 2019-01-10
76 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Computer aids to writing 49:50 2019-01-10
77 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Final truths 41:19 2019-01-10
78 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Comments on student work 52:10 2019-01-10
79 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Examples of good style 51:09 2019-01-10
80 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Scientific American Saga (2) 52:20 2019-01-10
81 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Quotations 51:19 2019-01-10
82 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Illustrations (2) 47:32 2019-01-10
83 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Illustrations (1) 50:00 2019-01-10
84 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Scientific American Saga (1) 51:20 2019-01-10
85 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Refereeing (2) 49:27 2019-01-10
86 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Refereeing (1) 51:43 2019-01-10
87 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - User manuals; Galley proofs 50:22 2019-01-10
88 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Literate Programming (2) 52:11 2019-01-10
89 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Literate Programming (1) 58:31 2019-01-10
90 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Presenting algorithms 52:17 2019-01-10
91 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Preparing books for publication (3) 55:09 2019-01-10
92 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Presenting algorithms 52:17 2019-01-10
93 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Preparing books for publication (2) 50:33 2019-01-10
94 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Preparing books for publication (1) 54:33 2019-01-10
95 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Comments on student answers (2) 52:39 2019-01-10
96 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Comments on student answers (1) 53:21 2019-01-10
97 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Minicourse on technical writing (2) 54:22 2019-01-10
98 Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Minicourse on technical writing (1) 51:41 2019-01-10
99 Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth - "Pi and The Art of Computer Programming" (2019) 1:02:26 2019-12-21
100 Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth - Twintrees, Baxter Permutations, and Floorplans (2022) LIVE STREAM 1:11:35 2022-12-12
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102 Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth - Twintrees, Baxter Permutations, and Floorplans (2022) 1:08:50 2023-10-31
103 Stanford Lecture - Dancing Cells, Dr. Donald Knuth I 2023 1:32:47 2024-01-23
104 Stanford Lecture: Dr. Don Knuth - Strong Components and Weak Components (2024) 1:26:50 2024-10-17
105 Stanford Lecture - Strong Components and Weak Components, Dr. Donald Knuth I 2024 1:24:12 2025-01-07
106 Stanford Lecture: Dr. Don Knuth - Adventures with Knight's Tours (2025) 1:56:06 2025-10-24
107 Stanford Lecture: The Internal Details of TeX82 - Session 1 (July 28, 1982) 1:05:21 2025-11-26
108 Stanford Lecture: The Internal Details of TeX82 - Session 2 (July 28, 1982) 59:06 2025-11-26
109 Stanford Lecture: The Internal Details of TeX82 - Session 3 (July 28, 1982) 1:04:50 2025-11-26
110 Stanford Lecture: The Internal Details of TeX82 - Session 4 (July 28, 1982) 1:10:11 2025-11-27
111 0Stanford Lecture: The Internal Details of TeX82 - Session 5 (July 29, 1982) 1:03:19 2025-11-27
112 Stanford Lecture: The Internal Details of TeX82 - Session 6 (July 29, 1982) 1:05:43 2025-11-27
113 Stanford Lecture: The Internal Details of TeX82 - Session 7 (July 29, 1982) 1:04:58 2025-11-27
114 Stanford Lecture: The Internal Details of TeX82 - Session 8 (July 29, 1982) 1:03:00 2025-11-27
115 Stanford Lecture: The Internal Details of TeX82 - Session 9 (July 30, 1982) 1:03:33 2025-11-27
116 Stanford Lecture: The Internal Details of TeX82 - Session 10 (July 30, 1982) 1:04:32 2025-11-27
117 Stanford Lecture: The Internal Details of TeX82 - Session 11 (July 30, 1982) 1:05:32 2025-11-27
118 Stanford Lecture: The Internal Details of TeX82 - Session 12 (July 30, 1982) 1:03:50 2025-11-27

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