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One of my computer heroes, Donald Knuth, has sent a message to the head of the EPO, hoping to convince her that every algorithm is sacred, ...

Although I've written elsewhere about the recent court case of Symbian v Comptroller General of Patents, noting that it was bad news, I ...

During the writing of Rebel Code I had the privilege of talking to nearly all of the world's top hackers. Among those, Donald Knuth is...

I often witter on about open access , assuming people know what I'm talking about. But if you'd like a little historical background...

Yesterday I wrote about Knuth's wise words on software patents. In the course of trying to discover when exactly they were written (an...

If computing has a patron saint, it is the great and amazing Donald Knuth . Put another way, he is the god of computer algorithms, so I was...

Today is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Most people know him as one of the world's greatest composers: ...