ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Edsger W. Dijkstra
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Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a hugely influential Dutch pioneer of computer science.
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Nationality
Dutch
History
- Born: May 11, 1930
- Died: August 6, 2002
Theorems and Definitions
- The DJP Algorithm, also known as the Jarník Algorithm, Prim's Algorithm or the Prim-Jarník Algorithm
- Dijkstra's Algorithm
- The Dining Philosophers Problem
- The Shunting-Yard Algorithm
Books, Publications, etc.
- March 1968: Go to statement considered harmful (Letters to the editor: Communications of the ACM)
- Aug 1972: The Humble Programmer (Communications of the ACM)
- 1972: Structured Programming (with O.-J. Dahl and C. A. R. Hoare)
- 1976: A Discipline of Programming
- May 1982: How do we tell truths that might hurt? (SIGPLAN Notice)
- 1982: Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal Perspective
- 1988 A Method of Programming (with W.H.J. Feijen and J. Sterringa)
- 1988: The Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science
