Re:Google Tech Talks: "All Questions Answered" by Donald Knuth
by dpkendal on Saturday April 23, 2011 @10:03AM
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I was fortunate to see him in Manchester, England in February. As Manchester is the birthplace of the Small Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), someone asked him:
Q: What would you have done with the SSEM if you had access to it?
A: Given that I was about ten years old at the time, I would probably have used it to check Facebook.
A great man, with a great sense of humour. (He later gave his real answer: he would write a program to play music on it.)
Q: What would you have done with the SSEM if you had access to it?
A: Given that I was about ten years old at the time, I would probably have used it to check Facebook.
A great man, with a great sense of humour. (He later gave his real answer: he would write a program to play music on it.)