Edsger W. Dijkstra

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Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (/ˈdkstrə/ DYKE-strə; Dutch: [ˈɛtsxər ˈʋibə ˈdɛikstra] (Loudspeaker.svglisten); 11 May 1930 – 6 August 2002) was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, software engineer, systems scientist, and science essayist.[8][9] He received the 1972 Turing Award for fundamental contributions to developing structured programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until 2000.

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Dijkstra in 2002
Born(1930-05-11)11 May 1930
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Died6 August 2002(2002-08-06) (aged 72)
Nuenen, Netherlands
CitizenshipNetherlands
EducationLeiden University (B.S., M.S.)
University of Amsterdam (Ph.D.)
SpouseMaria (Ria) C. Debets
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ThesisCommunication with an Automatic Computer (1959)
Doctoral advisorAdriaan van Wijngaarden
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Shortly before his death in 2002, he received the ACM PODC Influential Paper Award in distributed computing for his work on self-stabilization of program computation. This annual award was renamed the Dijkstra Prize the following year, in his honor.