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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Dijkstra (pronounced [ˈdɛikstraː] or [ˈdikstraː]) 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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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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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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(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...
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gigantic computers, programming has become an equally gigantic problem. — Edsger Dijkstra, The Humble Programmer (EWD340), Communications of the ACM The causes...
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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...
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number of states in which it halts. Edsger Dijkstra further developed the nondeterministic global state approach. Dijkstra's model gave rise to a controversy...
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concurrently. Pioneers in the field of concurrent computing include Edsger Dijkstra, Per Brinch Hansen, and C.A.R. Hoare. The concept of concurrent computing...
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Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten (section Edsger Dijkstra)
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...
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to specify the interactions of concurrent processes, and along with Edsger Dijkstra, formulated the dining philosophers problem. Since 1977, he has held...
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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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Theorem Well-formed formula Dijkstra, E.W. (July 1996), A first exploration of effective reasoning [EWD896]. (E.W. Dijkstra Archive, Center for American...
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Self-stabilization (category Edsger W. Dijkstra)
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...
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On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science (category Works by Edsger Dijkstra)
physics-based engineering. Dijkstra, Edsger W. On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computing Science (EWD-1036) (PDF). E.W. Dijkstra Archive. Center for American...
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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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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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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...
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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...
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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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Predicate transformer semantics (category Edsger W. Dijkstra)
Predicate transformer semantics were introduced by Edsger Dijkstra in his seminal paper "Guarded commands, nondeterminacy and formal derivation of programs"...
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mathematics from the Eindhoven University of Technology under advisor Edsger Dijkstra. In 1968, Habermann was invited to join the department of computer...
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problem, a computer science–related programming problem proposed by Edsger Dijkstra DNF (software), a package manager for RPM-based Linux distributions...
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Dutch national flag problem (category Edsger W. Dijkstra)
Dutch national flag problem is a computational problem proposed by Edsger Dijkstra. The flag of the Netherlands consists of three colors: red, white,...
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Donald Knuth has said that programming is an art and a science. Edsger W. Dijkstra claimed that the terms software engineering and software engineer...
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147–148. doi:10.1145/362929.362947. S2CID 17469809. Dijkstra, Edsger W. EWD-215 (PDF). E.W. Dijkstra Archive. Center for American History, University of...
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different development approaches when compared with application software. Edsger Dijkstra referred to these languages as machine oriented high order languages...
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Goto (category Edsger W. Dijkstra)
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...
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