Edsger W. Dijkstra
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (May 11, 1930 – August 6, 2002; Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɛtsxər ˈwibə ˈdɛɪkstra] (
listen)) was a Dutch computer scientist. He received the 1972 Turing Award for fundamental contributions to developing programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until 2000.
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra | |
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| Born | May 11, 1930 |
| Died | August 6, 2002 (aged 72) |
| Known for | Dijkstra's algorithm Structured programming THE multiprogramming system Semaphore |
| Awards | Turing Award Association for Computing Machinery |
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| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Mathematisch Centrum Eindhoven University of Technology The University of Texas at Austin |
| Doctoral students | Nico Habermann Martin Rem David Naumann Cornelis Hemerik Jan Tijmen Udding Johannes van de Snepscheut Antonetta van Gasteren |
Shortly before his death in 2002, he received the ACM PODC Influential Paper Award in distributed computing for his work on self-stabilization of program computation. This annual award was renamed the Dijkstra Prize the following year, in his honor.
Edsger W. Dijkstra Media
The Eindhoven University of Technology, located in Eindhoven in the south of the Netherlands, where Dijkstra was a professor of mathematics from 1962 to 1984.
The University of Texas at Austin, where Dijkstra held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences from 1984 until 1999.
Dijkstra at the blackboard during a conference at ETH Zurich in 1994. He once remarked, "A picture may be worth a thousand words, a formula is worth a thousand pictures."
