Comment by sytelus

I'm wondering if someone should be starting a new generation of TAOCP as wiki. As wonderful as TAOCP is, frankly, first volumes are bit outdated. Many problems that were mentioned opened have had huge progress and many new fields have opened up since their publications. Several Level 50 problems are now being taught in CS Masters or some even Bachelor levels. Besides I really find MIX too arcane and getting in the way. In a way, it's kind of disturbing that we still fall back on ~40 years old material for the field as fast moving as Computer Science. Sure, much of the CS is timeless but we are ignoring so much progress and growth in fields such as Computational Geometry, Number Theory, Cryptography, Semi-Numeral algos and so on. Also, even if Knuth manages to complete all of his planned volumes, it would still have scratched only tip of the tip of a iceberg. Of course, some of material will start becoming stale pretty much as soon as it was created. Currently Wikipedia is not a great option to create such writing because it doesn't allow content in "teaching style" or things like creating exercise. If we can distribute this effort out with editor that can approximate Knuth's meticulousness, it could be great boon for our field. Knuth as an original flame bearer could be a great person himself to start such an effort.