Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch mathematician
Died when: 72 years 87 days (866 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (/ˈdaɪkstrə/ DYKE-strə;Dutch: [ˈɛtsxər ˈʋibə ˈdɛikstra]; 11 May 1930 – 6 August 2002) was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, software engineer, systems scientist, and science essayist.
He received the 1972 Turing Award for fundamental contributions to developing programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until 2000.
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.
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