Edsger W. Dijkstra
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| Death | 21 years ago |
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| Date of birth | May 11,1930 |
| Zodiac sign | Taurus |
| Date of died | August 6,2002 |
| Died | Nuenen |
| Netherlands | |
| Spouse | Maria C. Dijkstra Debets |
| Children | Rutger M. Dijkstra |
| Marcus J. Dijkstra | |
| Femke E. Dijkstra | |
| Rutger M. Dijkstra | |
| Marcus J. Dijkstra | |
| Job | Mathematician |
| Physicist | |
| Computer scientist | |
| Education | Leiden University |
| Gymnasium Erasmianum | |
| Erasmiaans Gymnasium | |
| Eindhoven University of Technology | |
| Books | Structured Programming |
| A Primer of ALGOL 60 Programming: Together with Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 60 | |
| Program Construction: International Summer School | |
| A Discipline of Programming | |
| Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal Perspective | |
| Predicate Calculus and Program Semantics | |
| A Method of Programming | |
| Awards | Turing Award |
| Dijkstra Prize | |
| Harry H. Goode Memorial Award | |
| SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education | |
| ACM Fellow | |
| Parents | Brechtje Cornelia Kruyper |
| Douwe Wybe Dijkstra | |
| Born | Rotterdam |
| Netherlands | |
| Doctor advisor | Adriaan van Wijngaarden |
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| ID | 542227 |
Edsger W. Dijkstra Life story
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, software engineer, and science essayist. Born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Dijkstra studied mathematics and physics and then theoretical physics at the University of Leiden.
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