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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over three years ago, I wrote a post to try to address a fallacy that is used to refute the idea of novel ways of teaching mathematics and science. That fallacy basically says that mathematics and the ...

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, 72, a University of Texas professor who was considered a pioneer of computer science, died of cancer Wednesday in Austin. He was renowned for his work in software development and ...

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 ...