Amusing NPR interview with Ms. Case From the NPR show "Not My Job", a rambling and entertaining interview with alt-country, loud singing, red-haired songstress Neko Case. On an unrelated note, I know she's American, but we Canucks like to claim her as our own, what with her Canadian Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and her collaborations with Canadian bands.
posted by dbarefoot
on Jul 15, 2009 -
46 comments
“I wanted to try to capture the intelligence of the design, not just the outcome of the design.” “In 1977, [Donald] Knuth halted research on his books for what he expected to be a one-year hiatus. Instead, it took 10. Accompanied by [his wife] Jill, Knuth took design classes from Stanford art professor Matthew Kahn. Knuth, trying to train his programmer’s brain to think like an artist’s, wanted to create a program [
TeX] that would understand why each stroke in a typeface would be pleasing to the eye.”—from a
profile of Knuth in the
Stanford Magazine (May '06).
Salon calls him “
computing’s philosopher king”
(Sep '99). NPR’s
Morning Edition interviews Knuth as “
the founding artist of computer science”
(Mar '05). Perhaps a MeFite somewhere has one of
these?
(Previously)
posted by Ethereal Bligh
on Apr 23, 2007 -
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