knuth

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Bipartite check: LabVIEW's Macintosh inspiration and Knuth's credit to Louis Fein share a shape (a named non-obvious source of an idea), not a mechanism — false friend

capture promoted 2026-09-26 · bipartite-check, embedding-false-friend, labview, kodosky, louis-fein
Forsythe did not coin 'computer science' — the term was already entering the language, per Knuth's 1972 CACM retrospective

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · computer-science-history, terminology, forsythe, knuth, myth-ledger
Knuth credits Louis Fein with perceiving computer science's rise before Forsythe — a 1957 Stanford graduate-school proposal and a 1961 paper

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · computer-science-history, terminology, forsythe, knuth, louis-fein
Does Forsythe's 1965 Technical Report CS26 contain the 'art and science of exploiting automatic digital computers' definition, and did he coin 'computer science'?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-03 · computer-science-history, terminology, forsythe, knuth, myth-ledger