ross@ulowell.UUCP (Ross) (02/21/86)
> In article <529@hoptoad.uucp> laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton) writes: > >Due to overwhelming response: > > > > Donald Knuth is a professor at Stanford University > >(PHY@SU-AI.ARPA). He has written three volumes of an encyclopedia of > >Computer Science, called *The Art of Computer Programming*. The first > >volume is on Fundamental Algorithms, the second is on Seminumerical > >Algorithms, and the third is on Sorting and Searching. I don't know > >whether Knuth is ever going to finish the series -- he originally > >intended seven volumes, but I hear rumours that the number is going to > >change. And I hear rumours that he is never going to get back to the > >project. > > Perhaps the first three volumes of the never-to-be-finished Knuth > series are actually episodes I, II, and III of the never-to-be-finished > Lucas Star Wars series. :-) > At Boskone XXIII Lucas film gave gave a presentation about up and coming movies. The question, "When will the next Star Wars be coming" was posed to the speaker three times. On the third time she answered 5-7 years. It was ambiguous whether that would be time frame that it would be started on or shown; the reason for this is that Lucas wants to work on other things. They do realize that people was to see the rest of the Star Wars series; in fact a slide was shown with a terrorist type note, written with cut out magazine letters, asking for Star Wars IV. ...wanginst!ulowell!ross