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    Adriaan "Aad" van Wijngaarden (2 November 1916 – 7 February 1987) was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Van...
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    Edsger W. Dijkstra (category Dutch computer scientists)
    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...
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    gained his doctorate in 1974 under Adriaan van Wijngaarden. The Van Emde Boas tree is named after him. Dr. P. van Emde Boas, 1945 - at the University...
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  • "Wijngaarden". People with this name include: Adriaan van Wijngaarden (1916–1987), Dutch mathematician and computer scientist He devised a.o. the Van Wijngaarden...
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  • politician Adriaan van Wijngaarden, Dutch computer scientist and developer of Van Wijngaarden grammar and co-designer of ALGOL Herman Zanstra, Dutch astronomer...
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    (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial...
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  • – database management systems Norbert Wiener – Cybernetics Adriaan van WijngaardenDutch pioneer; ARRA, ALGOL, IFIP WG 2.1 member Mary Allen Wilkes...
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    thesis supervisor was Adriaan van Wijngaarden, who also supervised another notable Dutch computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra. Van Emden spent 1971 to...
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  • (1909–1995), Dutch astronomer Adriaan van Wijngaarden (1916–1987), Dutch mathematician and computer scientist Adriaan van der Willigen Pz. (1810–1876), Dutch doctor...
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    Cornelis H. A. Koster (category Dutch computer scientists)
    he worked at the Mathematisch Centrum (MC) in Amsterdam under Adriaan van Wijngaarden. There he was one of the editors of the original Report on the...
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    Reinder Pieter (Reind) van de Riet (22 April 1939, Groningen – 18 December 2008, Baarn) was a Dutch computer scientist and Emeritus Professor Information...
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    grammars in a finite number of rules. The formalism was invented by Adriaan van Wijngaarden to rigorously define some syntactic restrictions that previously...
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  • Lambert Meertens (category Dutch computer scientists)
    Amsterdam) is a Dutch computer scientist and professor. As of 2020[update], he is a researcher at the Kestrel Institute, a nonprofit computer science research...
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  • Bram Jan Loopstra (category Dutch computer scientists)
    1979) was a Dutch computing pioneer who worked at the Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam and then at Electrologica with Adriaan van Wijngaarden, Carel S. Scholten...
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    Delft University of Technology (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
    van Ekenstein, Dutch chemist and discoverer of Lobry-de Bruyn-van Ekenstein transformation. TU Delft alumni and computer scientists include Adriaan van...
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    Willem Louis van der Poel (born 2 December 1926) is a Dutch computer scientist, who is known for designing one of the first computers to be designed in...
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  • Ole-Johan Dahl (category Norwegian computer scientists)
    (12 October 1931 – 29 June 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist. Dahl was a professor of computer science at the University of Oslo and is considered...
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  • List of programmers (category Lists of computer scientists)
    Ruby to teach programming Adriaan van WijngaardenDutch pioneer; ARRA, ALGOL, IFIP WG 2.1 member Bruce Wilcox – created Computer Go, programmed NEMESIS...
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  • Charles H. Lindsey (category British computer scientists)
    Differential Analyser at Manchester Museum of Science and Technology. van Wijngaarden, Adriaan; Mailloux, Barry James; Peck, John Edward Lancelot; Koster, Cornelis...
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    David Gries (category American computer scientists)
    David Gries (born April 26, 1939) is an American computer scientist at Cornell University, mainly known for his books The Science of Programming (1981)...
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  • Jacobus Verhoeff (category Dutch computer scientists)
    "Koos" Verhoeff (20 February 1927 – 19 March 2018) was a Dutch mathematician, computer scientist, and artist. He is known for his work on error detection...
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