{"query":{"pages":{"10018":{"pageid":10018,"ns":0,"title":"Edsger W. Dijkstra","revisions":[{"*":"{{Infobox_Scientist\n| name                    = Edsger Wybe Dijkstra\n| image                   = Edsger Wybe Dijkstra.jpg\n| image_width             = 150px\n| caption                 = \n| birth_date              = {{Birth date|1930|05|11}}\n| birth_place             = [[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]\n| death_date              = {{death date and age|2002|8|6|1930|05|11}}\n| death_place             = [[Nuenen]], [[Netherlands]]\n| residence               = \n| citizenship             =\n| nationality             = \n| ethnicity               =\n| field                   = [[Computer science]]\n| work_institutions       = [[Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica|Mathematisch Centrum]]<br>[[Eindhoven University of Technology]]\n<br>[[University of Texas at Austin|The University of Texas at Austin]]\n| alma_mater              = \n| doctoral_advisor        = [[Adriaan van Wijngaarden]]\n| doctoral_students       =  [[Nico Habermann]]<\/br>[[Martin Rem]]<\/br>[[David Naumann]]<\/br>[[Cornelis Hemerik]]<\/br>[[Jan Tijmen Udding]]<\/br>[[Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut|Johannes van de Snepscheut]]<\/br>[[Antonetta van Gasteren]]\n| known_for               = [[Dijkstra's algorithm]]<br>[[Structured programming]]<br>[[THE multiprogramming system]]<br>[[Semaphore (programming)|Semaphore]]\n| prizes                  = [[Turing Award]]<br>[[Association for Computing Machinery]]\n| footnotes               = \n}}\n'''Edsger Wybe Dijkstra''' (May 11, 1930 \u2013 August 6, 2002; {{IPA-nl|\u02c8\u025btsx\u0259r \u02c8wib\u0259 \u02c8d\u025b\u026akstra|-|Dijkstra.ogg}}) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[computer science|computer scientist]]. He received the 1972  [[Turing Award]]  for fundamental contributions to developing programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The [[University of Texas at Austin]] from 1984 until 2000.\n\nShortly before his death in 2002, he received the [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] PODC Influential Paper Award in distributed computing for his work on [[self-stabilization]] of program computation. This annual award was renamed the [[Dijkstra Prize]] the following year, in his honour."}],"links":[{"ns":0,"title":"ACM Turing Award"},{"ns":0,"title":"ALGOL"},{"ns":0,"title":"ALGOL 60"},{"ns":0,"title":"Adi Shamir"},{"ns":0,"title":"Adriaan van Wijngaarden"},{"ns":0,"title":"Agile software development"},{"ns":0,"title":"Alan Kay"},{"ns":0,"title":"Alan Perlis"},{"ns":0,"title":"Algorithm"},{"ns":0,"title":"Allen Newell"}],"images":[{"ns":6,"title":"File:Copyright-problem.svg"},{"ns":6,"title":"File:Dijkstra.ogg"},{"ns":6,"title":"File:Edsger Wybe Dijkstra.jpg"},{"ns":6,"title":"File:Speaker Icon.svg"},{"ns":6,"title":"File:Wikiquote-logo-en.svg"}],"categories":[{"ns":14,"title":"Category:1930 births"},{"ns":14,"title":"Category:2002 deaths"},{"ns":14,"title":"Category:All pages needing cleanup"},{"ns":14,"title":"Category:Articles needing cleanup from April 2009"},{"ns":14,"title":"Category:Articles with close paraphrasing from April 2009"},{"ns":14,"title":"Category:Computer pioneers"},{"ns":14,"title":"Category:Dutch computer scientists"},{"ns":14,"title":"Category:Dutch physicists"},{"ns":14,"title":"Category:Eindhoven University of Technology faculty"},{"ns":14,"title":"Category:Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery"}]}}},"query-continue":{"links":{"plcontinue":"10018|0|American Academy of Arts and Sciences"},"categories":{"clcontinue":"10018|Fellows of the British Computer Society"}}}