Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (/ˈdaɪkstrə/ DYKE-strə, Dutch: [ˈɛtsxər ˈʋibə ˈdɛikstraː] ; 11 May 1930 – 6 August 2002) was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer...
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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...
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locations, while PODC has been traditionally held in North America. The Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing is presented alternately at PODC and...
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Dijkstra (pronounced [ˈdɛikstrɑ] or [ˈdikstrɑ]) is a Dutch family name of West Frisian origin. It most commonly refers to: Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002)...
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Considered harmful (category Edsger W. Dijkstra)
disciplines. Its use in this context originated with a 1968 letter by Edsger Dijkstra published as "Go To Statement Considered Harmful". Considered harmful...
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Semaphore (programming) (category Edsger W. Dijkstra)
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...
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Considered Harmful" open letter in 1968 by Dutch computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra, who coined the term "structured programming". Structured programming...
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Dining philosophers problem (category Edsger W. Dijkstra)
techniques for resolving them. It was originally formulated in 1965 by Edsger Dijkstra as a student exam exercise, presented in terms of computers competing...
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in 1957 and Edsger W. Dijkstra in 1959. Therefore, it is also sometimes called the Jarník's algorithm, Prim–Jarník algorithm, Prim–Dijkstra algorithm or...
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Page 27. (This statement is sometimes erroneously attributed to Edsger W. Dijkstra, also involved in implementing the first ALGOL 60 compiler.) Dybvig...
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European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). The Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing is presented alternately at DISC and...
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Producer–consumer problem (category Edsger W. Dijkstra)
bounded-buffer problem) is a family of problems described by Edsger W. Dijkstra since 1965. Dijkstra found the solution for the producer-consumer problem as...
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Dekker's algorithm (category Edsger W. Dijkstra)
The solution is attributed to Dutch mathematician Th. J. Dekker by Edsger W. Dijkstra in an unpublished paper on sequential process descriptions and his...
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THE multiprogramming system (category Edsger W. Dijkstra)
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...
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(PDF). p. 27. (This statement is sometimes erroneously attributed to Edsger W. Dijkstra, also involved in implementing the first ALGOL 60 compiler.) Abelson...
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Banker's algorithm (category Edsger W. Dijkstra)
resource allocation and deadlock avoidance algorithm developed by Edsger Dijkstra that tests for safety by simulating the allocation of predetermined...
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The Dijkstra–Scholten algorithm (named after Edsger W. Dijkstra and Carel S. Scholten) is an algorithm for detecting termination in a distributed system...
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Wright and was independently reinvented by Friedrich L. Bauer and Edsger W. Dijkstra in the early 1960s to reduce computer memory access and use the stack...
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Goto (category Edsger W. Dijkstra)
time no one[citation needed] paid attention to his remark, including Edsger W. Dijkstra, who later became the iconic opponent of GOTO. The 1970s and 1980s...
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complicate the formal reasoning about programs, they are better avoided. — Edsger W. Dijkstra In any programming language that implements short-circuit evaluation...
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}}n=0\\1&{\mbox{if }}n=1\\L(n-1)+L(n-2)+1&{\mbox{if }}n>1\\\end{cases}}} Edsger W. Dijkstra used them as an integral part of his smoothsort algorithm, and also...
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Van Nostrand Reinhold (1971) Edsger W. Dijkstra, A Discipline of Programming, Prentice-Hall (1976) O.-J. Dahl, E.W.Dijkstra, C.A.R. Hoare, Structured Programming...
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first demonstrated in 1952. In that same year, van Wijngaarden hired Edsger W. Dijkstra, and they worked on software for the ARRA. in 1958, while visiting...
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first approved in 1969 and the first election was made in 1971 to Edsger W. Dijkstra. The nominations committee is responsible for identifying and proposing...
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the other. The term separation of concerns was probably coined by Edsger W. Dijkstra in his 1974 paper "On the role of scientific thought". Let me try...
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Pathfinding (category Edsger W. Dijkstra)
variant on solving mazes. This field of research is based heavily on Dijkstra's algorithm for finding the shortest path on a weighted graph. Pathfinding...
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Sleeping barber problem (category Edsger W. Dijkstra)
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...
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generational garbage collection was stimulated by its use in Lisp. Edsger W. Dijkstra in his 1972 Turing Award lecture said, With a few very basic principles...
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Guarded Command Language (category Edsger W. Dijkstra)
Guarded Command Language (GCL) is a programming language defined by Edsger Dijkstra for predicate transformer semantics in EWD472. It combines programming...
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Considered Harmful" open letter in 1968 by Dutch computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra, who coined the term "structured programming". Unstructured programming...
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