Historical records matching Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
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About Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist and an early pioneer in many research areas of computing science. A theoretical physicist by training, he worked as a programmer at the Mathematisch Centrum (Amsterdam) from 1952 to 1962. He was a professor of mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology (1962–1984) and a research fellow at the Burroughs Corporation (1973–1984). He held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until 1999, and retired as Professor Emeritus in 1999.
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Edsger Wybe Dijkstra's Timeline
| 1930 |
May 11, 1930
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Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland (Netherlands)
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| 2002 |
August 6, 2002
Age 72
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Nuenen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland (Netherlands)
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