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 ...

NEW YORK — The computer science community and, by extension, the engineering world lost two pioneers when Edsger Wybe Dijkstra and Kristen Nygaard died within days of each other. Dijkstra, who died ...

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 ...

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 ...