Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, one of the creators of the art and science of computer programming, has died. He was 72. Born in Rotterdam in 1930, Dijkstra's career in Europe and the United States included ...

In our Retrobituaries series, we highlight interesting people who are no longer with us. Today let's explore the life of Edsger Dijkstra, who died at 72 in 2002. If you’ve used a computer or smart ...

Created by Dutch computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra in the 1950s, Dijkstra's Algorithm sets out to solve what is known in graph theory as a shortest path problem. What Dijkstra built would become the ...

considered harmful: adj. [very common] Edsger W. Dijkstra’s note in the March 1968 “Communications of the ACM,” “Goto Statement Considered Harmful,” fired the first salvo in the structured programming ...

A semaphore (pronounced as sehm uh fawr, invented by Edsger Dijkstra) in computer science is a classic way of protecting shared resources. A semaphore (pronounced as sehm uh fawr, invented by Edsger ...

Computer scientist Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, best known for a paper that said Basic's Go To command was "considered harmful", has died aged 72. The article, first published in 1968, was reprinted here in ...

I remember hearing that name in the context of something Comp Sci-related, but can't pinpoint exactly what it was he did.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Dijkstra did a lot of theoretical computer science ...