About Me
- Name: Sushant Bhatia
- Location: Tempe, Az
I work at CUbiC, the Center for Ubiquitous Computing at ASU. We are developing applications and devices for individuals who are blind. I personally am in charge of developing the iCare BookReader. This device will allow individuals who are blind to have print material read to them. The interface is intuitive and accessible. The process is much faster than using a scanner and our BookReader is quite feature rich. On a personal note, I love coding especially in .Net and C#.
My blog is about coding in .Net and about my interests in general. I love to read, esp Discworld novels by Terry Prattchet. I will post items about work, school, cool stuff and ideas for projects I have. If your ever interested in any of them, let me know as I would love to work on some of them.
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Wednesday, December 08, 2004
Donald Knuth
A friend of mine, vivek linked his blog to a blog called kernelthread. On kernelthread was a post about a check paid to the owner of kernelthread by the infamous Donal Knuth. So I have to post the piccie that kernelthread took. Its the coolest thing I've ever seen. For only $2.56 but still the coolest thing ever.
Wikipedia gives a definition for Knuth as
Knuth is best known as the author of the multi-volume The Art of Computer Programming, one of the most highly respected references in the computer science field. He practically created the field of rigorous analysis of algorithms, and made many seminal contributions to several branches of theoretical computer science. He is the creator of the TEX typesetting system and of the Metafont font design system, and pioneered the concept of literate programming.
In case you don't know why Knuth gives $2.56 for errors in his books, its because 256 pennies is one hexadecimal dollar. I definately want to read his book "The art of computer programming."