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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...