What is Edsger W. Dijkstra?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Edsger Wybe Dijkstra | image = Edsger Wybe Dijkstra.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|05|11}} | birth_place = [[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2002|8|6|1930|05|11}} | death_place = [[Nuenen]], [[Netherlands]] | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | ethnicity = | field = [[Computer science]] | work_institutions = [[Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica|Mathematisch Centrum]]<br>[[Eindhoven University of Technology]] <br>[[University of Texas at Austin|The University of Texas at Austin]] | alma_mater = | doctoral_advisor = [[Adriaan van Wijngaarden]] | 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]] | known_for = [[Dijkstra's algorithm]]<br>[[Structured programming]]<br>[[THE multiprogramming system]]<br>[[Semaphore (programming)|Semaphore]] | prizes = [[Turing Award]]<br>[[Association for Computing Machinery]] | footnotes = }} '''Edsger Wybe Dijkstra''' (May 11, 1930 – August 6, 2002; {{IPA-nl|ˈɛtsxər ˈwibə ˈdɛɪkstra|-|Dijkstra.ogg}}) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[computer science|computer scientist]]. He received the 1972 [[Turing Award]] for fundamental contributions to developing [[programming language]]s, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The [[University of Texas at Austin]] from 1984 until 2000. Shortly 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