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Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (/ ˈ d aɪ k s t r ə / DYKE-strə; Dutch: [ˈɛtsxər ˈʋibə ˈdɛikstraː] ⓘ; 11 May 1930 – 6 August 2002) was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, software engineer, mathematician, and science essayist.
Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist who developed the paradigm for writing computer programs called structured programming, in which programs were built out of modular units. He is also known for his 1959 solution to the problem of the shortest path between two nodes of a network.
Dijkstra was the first to observe not only that nondeterminacy is central in computations whose components interact asynchronously, but also that even when no asynchrony is involved, nondeterminacy is an effective tool for reasoning about programs and simplifying program design.
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was one of the most influential members of computing science’s founding generation. Among the domains in which his scientific contributions are fundamental are. algorithm design. programming languages.
Dijkstra was known for his essays on programming; he was the first to make the claim that programming is so inherently difficult and complex that programmers need to harness every trick and abstraction possible in hopes of managing the complexity of it successfully.
Dr. Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, Schlumberger Centennial Chair Emeritus in Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin and a noted pioneer of the science and industry of computing, died after a long struggle with cancer on Aug. 6 at his home in Nuenen, the Netherlands.
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930–2002) was one of the most influential researchers in the history of computer science, making fundamental contributions to both the theory and practice of computing. Early in his career, he proposed the single-source shortest path algorithm, now commonly referred to as Dijkstra’s algorithm.
Edsger W. Dijkstra is considered one of the most influential researchers in mathematics and computing science. He developed much of his pioneering work at Mathematisch Centrum, the institute now named CWI.
This interview with programming pioneer Edsger Dijkstra (1930 2002) was conducted by CBI researcher Phil Frana at Dijkstra’s home in Austin, TX, in August 2001 for a NSF-KDI project on "Building a Future for Software History."
Professor Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, a noted pioneer of the science and industry of computing, died after a long struggle with cancer on 6 August 2002 at his home in Nuenen, the Netherlands. Dijkstra was born in 1930 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, the son of a chemist father and a mathematician mother.