Dijkstra studied theoretical physics at the University of Leiden, but he quickly realized he was more interested in programming than physics. Originally employed by the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam, he held a professorship at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, worked as a research fellow for Burroughs Corporation in the early 1970s, and later held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, i ...
Dijkstra studied theoretical physics at the University of Leiden, but he quickly realized he was more interested in programming than physics. He worked as a research fellow for Burroughs Corporation in the early 1970s. He worked at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and later held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, in the United States. He retired in 2000.
Among his contributions to computer science is the shortest path-algorithm, also known as Dijkstra's algorithm, and the semaphore construct, for coordi ...
