Donald E. Knuth, the author of the TeX document formatting system, MetafontITs font-design program and the 3 volume computer science "Bible" of algorIThms, "The Art of Computer Programming". Knuth suggested the name "Backus-Naur Form" and was also involved in the SOL simulation language, and developed the WEBlITerate programming system. See also MIX, Turingol. (1994-11-04)