Publication Date

2001

Selected Works Department

University Studies

Document Type

News Article

Abstract

In this oral history Edsger Dijkstra recounts his early education and training as a theoretical physicist and as a'programmer'. Dijkstra describes his work developing software, and his activities at several early information processing conferences. Dijkstra also discourses on the development of ALGOL 60 and the origins of computing science in Europe and America.

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