Edsger dijkstra biography of nancy

Born 1930, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Leading critic of programming without a mathematical proof of correctness and condemner of the infamous GOTO; recipient of the 1972 ACM Turing Award.

Education: MS, mathematics and theoretical physics, University of Leiden, 1956; PhD, computing science, Municipal University of Amsterdam, 1959.

Professional Experience: professional programmer, Mathematisch Centrum, 1952-1962; professor of mathematics, Eindhoven University of Technology, 1962-1984; research fellow, Burroughs Corp., 1973-1984; Schlumberger Centennial chair, computer sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1984-present.

Honors and Awards: fellow, Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences; distinguished fellow, British Computer Society, 1972; ACM Turing Award, 1972; IEEE Computer Society Pioneer Award, 1980.

Dijkstra, recipient of the 1972 ACM Turing Award, is known for early graph-theoretical algorithms, the first implementation of Algol 60, and t