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    Edsger W. Dijkstra

    Dutch computer forskare (1930–2002)

    Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (DYKE-strə; Dutch:[ˈɛtsxərˈʋibəˈdɛikstraː]ⓘ; 11 May 1930 – 6 August 2002) was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, software engineer, mathematician, and science essayist.[1][2]

    Born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Dijkstra studied mathematics and physics and then theoretical physics at the University of Leiden. Adriaan van Wijngaarden offered him a job as the first computer programmer in the Netherlands at the Mathematical Centre in Amsterdam, where he worked from 1952 until 1962. He formulated and solved the shortest path problem in 1956, and in 1960 developed the first compiler for the programming language ALGOL 60 in conjunction with colleague Jaap A. Zonneveld. In 1962 he moved to Eindhoven, and later to Nuenen, where he became a professor in the Mathematics Department at the Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven. In the late 1960s he built the THE multiprogramming s

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    The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders

    As it turned out, the train I had taken from Nijmegen to Eindhoven arrived late. To make matters worse, I was then unable to find the right office in the university building. When I eventually arrived for my appointment, I was more than half an hour behind schedule. The professor completely ignored my profuse apologies and proceeded to take a full hour for the meeting. It was the first time I met Edsger Wybe Dijkstra.

    At the time of our meeting in 1975, Dijkstra was 45 years old. The most prestigious award in computer science, the ACM Turing Award, had been conferred on him three years earlier. Almost twenty years his junior, I knew very little about the field—I had only learned what a flowchart was a couple of weeks earlier. I was a postdoc newly arrived from communist Poland with a background in mathematical logic and a plan to stay in the West. I left the meeting with two book recommendations and a copy of a recent researc

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    Born
    11 May 1930
    Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Died
    6 August 2002
    Nuenen, The Netherlands
    Summary
    Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist best known for his shortest-path algorithm in graph theory.

    Biography

    Edsger Dijkstra's parents were Douwe Wybe Dijkstra and Brechtje Cornelia Kluijver (or Kluyver); he was the third of their four children. His father taught chemistry at the high school in Rotterdam while his mother was trained as a mathematician although she never had a formal position. Dijkstra wrote later of his mother's mathematical influence on him [9]:-
    ... she had a great agility in manipulating formulae and a wonderful gift for finding very elegant solutions.
    He attended High School in Rotterdam and in his final years at school he decided he wanted to study law. His ambition was to represent the Netherlands at the United Nations and felt that a law degree was the first step towards this. He took his final sch