Category:Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
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Date of birth | 11 May 1930 Rotterdam (Netherlands) Edsger Wybe Dijkstra | ||||
Date of death | 6 August 2002 Nuenen (Netherlands) | ||||
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English: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (May 11, 1930 – August 6, 2002) 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.
Nederlands: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (11 mei 1930 – 6 augustus 2002) was een Nederlandse wiskundige en informaticus die veel voor de informatica heeft gedaan, met name op het gebied van gestructureerd programmeren. In 1972 werd hij onderscheiden met de Turing Award.
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- Dijkstra (surname)
- Edsger (given name)
- 1930 births
- 2002 deaths
- Deaths from colorectal cancer
- Laureates of the Turing Award
- Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Laureates of Dijkstra Prize
- Harry H. Goode Memorial Award recipients
- Fellows of the British Computer Society
- Recipients of the Computer Pioneer Award
- Computer scientists from the Netherlands
- Mathematicians from the Netherlands
- Software engineers
- Formal methods people
- 20th-century mathematicians
- Births in Rotterdam
- Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
- Deaths in Nuenen