Edsger Dijkstra

GPTKB entity

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gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:Computer_Scientist
gptkbp:alma_mater gptkb:University_of_Amsterdam
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Turing_Award
gptkb:IEEE_Medal_of_Honor
gptkb:Nijmegen_University_honorary_doctorate
ACM Fellow
Member of the Academia Europaea
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences membership
gptkbp:born May 11, 1930
gptkbp:children gptkb:3
gptkbp:contribution gptkb:Documentation
gptkb:architecture
gptkb:C_programming_language
gptkb:tools
formal verification
algorithm analysis
theoretical computer science
algorithm design
data structures
distributed computing
operating systems
software maintenance
computational complexity
graph theory
numerical analysis
software reliability
software testing
software engineering
automata theory
theory of computation
software metrics
computational geometry
software design patterns
software project management
software engineering education
software engineering ethics
software development life cycle
programming language design
programming techniques
gptkbp:died August 6, 2002
gptkbp:field gptkb:computer_science
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Edsger Dijkstra
gptkbp:influenced computer programming
computer science education
software development methodologies
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Alan_Turing
gptkbp:known_for Dijkstra's algorithm
structured programming
the concept of a semaphore
the shortest path problem
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:Dutch
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:Professor
gptkbp:resides_in gptkb:Netherlands
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Vera_Dijkstra
gptkbp:wrote gptkb:Edsger_W._Dijkstra_Archive
A Discipline of Programming
The Humble Programmer
Notes on Structured Programming
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Robert_Sedgewick
gptkb:Bell_Laboratories
gptkb:Bell_Labs
gptkb:Robert_W._Floyd
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4