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    Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (/ˈdaɪkstrə/ DYKE-strə; Dutch: [ˈɛtsxər ˈʋibə ˈdɛikstra] ; 11 May 1930 – 6 August 2002) was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer...
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    computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra in 1956 and published three years later. The algorithm exists in many variants. Dijkstra's original algorithm found...
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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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    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 (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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • invented by Edsger Dijkstra and named the "shunting yard" algorithm because its operation resembles that of a railroad shunting yard. Dijkstra first described...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • find solutions. J.W.L. Glaisher refined Gunther's approach. In 1972, Edsger Dijkstra used this problem to illustrate the power of what he called structured...
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    Donald Knuth (1993, commenting on pre-standardized C++), who said of Edsger Dijkstra that "to think of programming in C++" "would make him physically ill":...
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    often attributed to—but almost certainly not first formulated by—Edsger Dijkstra, states that "computer science is no more about computers than astronomy...
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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 the executive officer of the computer...
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    Dijkstra, E. W. (1972). "The humble programmer". Communications of the ACM. 15 (10): 859–866. doi:10.1145/355604.361591. Hamilton Richards. "Edsger Wybe...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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