Edsger Dijkstra
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Netherlands
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computer scientist
Computer science
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. He received the 1972 Turing Award
Turing Award
The Turing Award, in full The ACM A.M. Turing Award, is an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the...
for fundamental contributions to developing programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin
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from 1984 until 2000.
Shortly before his death in 2002, he received the ACM
Association for Computing Machinery
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PODC Influential Paper Award in distributed computing for his work on self-stabilization
Self-stabilization
Self-stabilization is a concept of fault-tolerance in distributed computing. A distributed system that is self-stabilizing will end up in a correct state no matter what state it is initialized with...
of program computation.
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