Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (/ˈdaɪkstrə/ DYKE-strə; Dutch: [ˈɛtsxər ˈʋibə ˈdɛikstraː] ; 11 May 1930 – 6 August 2002) was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer...

It was conceived by computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra in 1956 and published three years later. Dijkstra's algorithm finds the shortest path from a...

disciplines. Its use in this context originated with a 1968 letter by Edsger Dijkstra published as "Go To Statement Considered Harmful". Considered harmful...

techniques for resolving them. It was originally formulated in 1965 by Edsger Dijkstra as a student exam exercise, presented in terms of computers competing...

Dijkstra (pronounced [ˈdɛikstraː] or [ˈdikstraː]) is a Dutch family name of West Frisian origin. It most commonly refers to: Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002)...

latter painting was stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in December 2002. Edsger Dijkstra (1930–2002), Dutch computer scientist, then a professor in the Mathematics...

gigantic computers, programming has become an equally gigantic problem. — Edsger Dijkstra, The Humble Programmer (EWD340), Communications of the ACM The causes...

concurrently. Pioneers in the field of concurrent computing include Edsger Dijkstra, Per Brinch Hansen, and C.A.R. Hoare. The concept of concurrent computing...

semaphore concept was invented by Dutch computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra in 1962 or 1963, when Dijkstra and his team were developing an operating system for...

number of states in which it halts. Edsger Dijkstra further developed the nondeterministic global state approach. Dijkstra's model gave rise to a controversy...

(RPN), or an abstract syntax tree (AST). The algorithm was invented by Edsger Dijkstra, first published in November 1961, and named the "shunting yard" algorithm...

to specify the interactions of concurrent processes, and along with Edsger Dijkstra, formulated the dining philosophers problem. Since 1977, he has held...

locations, while PODC has been traditionally held in North America. The Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing is presented alternately at PODC and...

today as "A picture is worth a thousand words." Computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra once remarked, "A picture may be worth a thousand words, a formula...

Theorem Well-formed formula Dijkstra, E.W. (July 1996), A first exploration of effective reasoning [EWD896]. (E.W. Dijkstra Archive, Center for American...

physics-based engineering. Dijkstra, Edsger W. On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computing Science (EWD-1036) (PDF). E.W. Dijkstra Archive. Center for American...

the design of the algorithm. Many years after the seminal paper of Edsger Dijkstra in 1974, this concept remains important as it presents an important...

problem was originally proposed in 1965 by computer science pioneer Edsger Dijkstra, who used it to make the point that general semaphores are often superfluous...

computer scientist and educator. He was a student of Martin Rem and Edsger Dijkstra. At the time of his death, he was a professor of Computing Science...

The Dijkstra–Scholten algorithm (named after Edsger W. Dijkstra and Carel S. Scholten) is an algorithm for detecting termination in a distributed system...

mathematics from the Eindhoven University of Technology under advisor Edsger Dijkstra. In 1968, Habermann was invited to join the department of computer...

problem, a computer science–related programming problem proposed by Edsger Dijkstra DNF (software), a package manager for RPM-based Linux distributions...

resource allocation and deadlock avoidance algorithm developed by Edsger Dijkstra that tests for safety by simulating the allocation of predetermined...

Statement Considered Harmful. The classic repudiation of spaghetti code by Edsger Dijkstra We don't know where to GOTO if we don't know where we've COME FROM...

criticism of GOTO is a 1968 letter by Edsger Dijkstra called "Go-to statement considered harmful". In that letter, Dijkstra argued that unrestricted GOTO statements...

system designed by a team led by Edsger W. Dijkstra, described in monographs in 1965-66 and published in 1968. Dijkstra never named the system; "THE" is...

Guarded Command Language (GCL) is a programming language defined by Edsger Dijkstra for predicate transformer semantics in EWD472. It combines programming...

often attributed to—but almost certainly not first formulated by—Edsger Dijkstra, states that "computer science is no more about computers than astronomy...

Dijkstra, E. W. (1972). "The humble programmer". Communications of the ACM. 15 (10): 859–866. doi:10.1145/355604.361591. Hamilton Richards. "Edsger Wybe...

algorithm. A variant of heapsort, it was invented and published by Edsger Dijkstra in 1981. Like heapsort, smoothsort is an in-place algorithm with an...