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A Short Biography of Edsgar Wybe Dijkstra

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Edsgar Wybe Dijkstra

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Edsgar Wybe Dijkstra

Born:

11 May 1930

Died:

06 Aug 2002




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Computer scientist                          
                          
                          
Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1971
Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society - 1971
The Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award - 1972
Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1975
Doctor of Science Honoris Causa from the Queen's University Belfast - 1976
Computer Pioneer Charter Recipient from the IEEE Computer Society - 1982
Honorary doctorate from the Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece - 2001.                          
Shortly before his death in 2002, he received the ACM PODC Influential Paper Award in distributed computing for his work in the subarea of self-stabilization. This annual award was renamed the Dijkstra Prize the following year, in his honour.