Robert W Floyd, In Memoriam by Donald E. Knuth, Stanford University Nobody has in uenced my scienti c life more than Bob Floyd. Indeed, were it not for him, I might well have never become a computer scientist. In this note I ll try to explain some of the reasons behind these statements, and to capture some of the spirit of old-time computer science. Instead of trying to reconstruct the past using only incidents that I think I remember, I will quote extensively from actual documents that were written at the time things happened. The remarks below are extracted from a one-hour keynote speech I gave to the Stanford Computer Forum on 20 March 2002; many further details, including images of the original documents, can be seen in a video recording of that lecture, which has been permanently archived on the Internet by Stanford s Center for Professional Development [scpd.stanford.edu]. As in that lecture, I won t attempt to give a traditional biography, with balanced accounts of Bob s childhood, education, family life, career, and outside interests; I believe that the intriguing task of preparing such an account will be undertaken before long by professional historians who are
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