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Categories: Programming language researchers, Dutch technology writers, Formal methods people, Dutch software engineers, Deaths from colorectal cancer
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Edsger W. Dijkstra  Dijkstra  Dikstra  Djikstra  E. W. Dijkstra
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Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, software engineer, and science essayist. Wikipedia
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Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, software engineer, and science essayist. Wikipedia
Dutch systems scientist, or his manuscript series Wikipedia Disambiguation
Dutch computer scientist Wikidata
IS A
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
Computer Pioneer Award
C&C Prize
Turing Award
Dijkstra Prize
Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
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CAUSE OF DEATH
colon cancer
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Kingdom of The Netherlands
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
Adriaan van Wijngaarden
DOCTORAL STUDENT
Nico Habermann
Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
Martin Rem
EDUCATED AT
Cambridge University
University of Texas
Gymnasium Erasmianum
University of Amsterdam
Leiden University
FAMILY NAME
Dijkstra
FIELD OF WORK
informatics
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
Dutch
English
MANNER OF DEATH
natural causes
MEMBER OF
Association for Computing Machinery
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
NATIVE LANGUAGE
Dutch
NOTABLE WORK
smoothsort
shunting-yard algorithm
Dijkstra's algorithm
Banker's algorithm
OCCUPATION
engineer
computer scientist
mathematician
physicist
professeur des universités
PLACE OF BIRTH
Rotterdam
PLACE OF DEATH
Nuenen
SEX OR GENDER
male
Wikipedia
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Edsger W. Dijkstra
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Edsger W. Dijkstra
Wikipedia Redirections
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Wikidata Alias
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Dijkstra, E.W. Dijkstra, Edsger Dijkstra, Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, EWD

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