Today marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, whose paper "GOTO considered harmful" not only initiated an enduring debate but also set a trend for headlines that extended into ...

I received my computer science degree from the University of Texas, where Dr. Dijkstra taught before retiring. I never took the undergraduate class he offered (I was kind of intimidated at the time), ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

Edsger Dijkstra was one of the first people to worry about what a program should be and he elevated the act of programming to both an art and a science. If you only know one Dijkstra quote, it should ...

Let us pause a moment to remember Edsger W. Dijkstra, who passed away on August 7. Mr. Dijkstra was the source of much wisdom in Computer Science, and we are all in his debt. Much of what we now take ...

In our Retrobituaries series, we highlight interesting people who are no longer with us. Today let's explore the life of Edsger Dijkstra, who died at 72 in 2002. If you’ve used a computer or smart ...

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 ...

Edsger Dijkstra, who has died of cancer aged 72, was a computer programming pioneer and penetrating thinker, who would throw off such remarks as: "The question of whether computers can think is like ...