Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930 - 2002)

Born 11 May 1930 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

Ancestors

Husband of Maria Cornelia Debets — married 23 Apr 1957 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Died 6 Aug 2002 at age 72 in Nuenen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

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Biography

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra is geboren in Zuid-Holland na 1811

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra is Notable.

Edsger W. Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, software engineer, systems scientist, and science journalist. Dijkstra and his colleague Jaap Zonneveld developed the first compiler for the programming language ALGOL 60 by August 1960. Among his most famous contributions to computer science is the shortest path algorithm, known as Dijkstra's algorithm.^[1]

Awards and Honors

• 1972 - Turing Award
• 1974 - Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
• 1989 - SIGCSE Outstanding Contribution
• 1994 - ACM Fellow
• 2002 - ACM PODC Influential Paper Award. Renamed "The Dijkstra Prize" in 2003 in his honor.

He married Maria (Ria) C. Debets in 1957.^[2] 3 children: Marcus, Femke, Rutger M. Dijkstra (also a computer scientist)^[2] He succumbed to cancer on 6 Aug 2002. His obituary was published online at Legacy.com.

Sources

1. ↑ "Tributes." Discover. Nov 2002, Vol 23, No 11, p12.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Wikipedia: Edsger W. Dijkstra, accessed 25 July 2016

• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8556

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award

See Also:

• Rotterdam registration of familly

• Worked in Amsterdam and T.U. Eindhoven, newspaper-article in Dutch, July 1962

• Interview about programming, NRC, Jun 1984

• Letter in NRC, sent from Austin, Texas, July 1986