Just heard one of Don Knuth’s Computer Musings. It was pretty amazing to watch him lecture—he’s so brilliant, the words can’t come out fast enough (at the age of 70!). Knuth reminded me that CS is an exciting, dynamic field, and breakthroughs are happening all the time. Mehran Sahami sums it up well (with a shoutout to Knuth, nonetheless):
Catch all of Don Knuth’s Stanford videos at SCPD.