An Interview with Edsger W. Dijkstra.

The article presents an interview with computer programmer Edsger W. Dijkstra. Dijkstra comments on how he left the Netherlands to study computer programming in Cambridge, England and how he developed an algorithm to find the shortest distance between two points as a way of demonstrating the Automat...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 8; pp. 41 - 48
Main Author: Misa, Thomas J.
Format: Interview
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Aug2010
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