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    Edsger W. Dijkstra

    Dutch computer forskare (–)

    Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (DYKE-strə; Dutch:[ˈɛtsxərˈʋibəˈdɛikstraː]ⓘ; 11 May – 6 August ) was a Dutch computer forskare, programmer, software engineer, mathematician, and science essayist.[1][2]

    Born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Dijkstra studied mathematics and physics and then theoretical physics at the University of stad. Adriaan van Wijngaarden offered him a job as the first computer programmer in the Netherlands at the Mathematical Centre in Amsterdam, where he worked from until He formulated and solved the shortest path bekymmer in , and in developed the first compiler for the programming language ALGOL 60 in conjunction with colleague Jaap A. Zonneveld. In he moved to Eindhoven, and later to Nuenen, where he became a professor in the Mathematics Department at the Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven. In the late s he built the THE multiprogramming struktur, which influenced the designs of subsequ

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    Edsger W. Dijkstra

    Born , Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Leading critic of programming without a mathematical proof of correctness and condemner of the infamous GOTO; recipient of the ACM Turing Award.

    Education: MS, mathematics and theoretical physics, University of Leiden, ; PhD, computing science, Municipal University of Amsterdam,

    Professional Experience: professional programmer, Mathematisch Centrum, ; professor of mathematics, Eindhoven University of Technology, ; research fellow, Burroughs Corp., ; Schlumberger Centennial chair, computer sciences, University of Texas at Austin, present.

    Honors and Awards: fellow, Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences; distinguished fellow, British Computer Society, ; ACM Turing Award, ; IEEE Computer Society Pioneer Award,

    Dijkstra, recipient of the ACM Turing Award, is known for early graph-theoretical algorithms, the first implementation of Algol 60, and the first operating system composed of explicitly synchronized sequenti

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    Born
    11 May
    Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Died
    6 August
    Nuenen, The Netherlands
    Summary
    Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist best known for his shortest-path algorithm in graph theory.

    Biography

    Edsger Dijkstra's parents were Douwe Wybe Dijkstra and Brechtje Cornelia Kluijver (or Kluyver); he was the third of their four children. His father taught chemistry at the high school in Rotterdam while his mother was trained as a mathematician although she never had a formal position. Dijkstra wrote later of his mother's mathematical influence on him [9]:-
    she had a great agility in manipulating formulae and a wonderful gift for finding very elegant solutions.
    He attended High School in Rotterdam and in his final years at school he decided he wanted to study law. His ambition was to represent the Netherlands at the United Nations and felt that a law degree was the first step towards this. He took his final school examinati