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Numerical EWD Index:     00xx     01xx     02xx     03xx     04xx     05xx     06xx     07xx     08xx     09xx     10xx     11xx     12xx     13xx BibTeX index MC Reports Other documents Transcriptions Video and Audio External links In addition, Dijkstra was intensely interested in teaching, and in the relationships between academic computing science and the software industry. During his forty-plus years as a computing scientist, which included positions in both academia and industry, Dijkstra’s contributions brought him many prizes and awards, including computing science’s highest honor, the ACM Turing Award. Like most of us, Dijkstra always believed it a scientist’s duty to maintain a lively correspondence with his scientific colleagues. To a greater extent than most of us, he put that conviction into practice. For over four decades, he mailed copies of his consecutively numbered technical notes, trip reports, insightful observations, and pungent commentaries, known collectively as “

(photo ©2002 Hamilton Richards) Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was one of the most influential members of computing science’s founding generation. Among the domains in which his scientific contributions are fundamental are algorithm design programming languages program design operating systems distributed processing formal specification and verification design of mathematical arguments In addition, Dijkstra was intensely interested in teaching, and in the relationships between academic computing science and the software industry. During his forty-plus years as a computing scientist, which…

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