Дональд Кнут в 1959 году

Высокий в очочках -- это Дональд Кнут, руководитель баскетбольной команды, а теперь академик РАН, автор “Искусства программирования“ и программы ТЕХ, в которой сверстаны книги нашего издательства. [Recorded: circa 1959] “The Electronic Coach“ is a short film made by IBM describing the use of computers in the management of a university basketball team. The film features computer science legend Don Knuth, then a junior at Case Institute of Technology. For all four of his undergraduate years at Case (1956-60), Knuth was manager of the basketball team and sought ways to improve his team’s play by analyzing a series of special statistics he captured during games. The scoring method was unusual in the weig