| Edsger Dijkstra AKA Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Born: 11-May-1930
Birthplace: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Died: 6-Aug-2002
Location of death: Nuenen, Netherlands
Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Computer Programmer Nationality: Netherlands
Executive summary: Enemy of the goto statement Father: (chemist)
Mother: (mathematician)
Wife: Maria C. Dijkstra Debets (m. 1957)
Son: Marcus J. Dijkstra
Daughter: Femke E. Dijkstra
Son: Rutger M. Dijkstra
High School: Gymnasium Erasmianum, Rotterdam, Netherlands (1948)
University: University of Leiden
Professor: Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands (1962-84)
Professor: University of Texas at Austin (1984-99)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Foreign Honorary member (1975)
Association for Computing Machinery Fellow (1994)
Turing Award 1972
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