Edsger Wybe Dijkstra : his life, work, and legacy /
"Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002) was one of the most influential researchers in the history of computer science, making fundamental contributions to both the theory and practice of computing. Early in his career, he proposed the single-source shortest path algorithm, now commonly referred to a...
| مؤلفون آخرون: | , , |
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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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[New York, New York] :
Association for Computing Machinery,
[2022]
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| الطبعة: | First edition. |
| سلاسل: | ACM books ;
no. 45. |
| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3766580 |
| الملخص: | "Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002) was one of the most influential researchers in the history of computer science, making fundamental contributions to both the theory and practice of computing. Early in his career, he proposed the single-source shortest path algorithm, now commonly referred to as Dijkstra's algorithm. He wrote (with Jaap Zonneveld) the first ALGOL 60 compiler, and designed and implemented with his colleagues the influential THE operating system. Dijkstra invented the field of concurrent algorithms, with concepts such as mutual exclusion, deadlock detection, and synchronization. A prolific writer and forceful proponent of the concept of structured programming, he convincingly argued against the use of the Go To statement. In 1972 he was awarded the ACM Turing Award for "fundamental contributions to programming as a high, intellectual challenge; for eloquent insistence and practical demonstration that programs should be composed correctly, not just debugged into correctness; for illuminating perception of problems at the foundations of program design." Subsequently he invented the concept of self-stabilization relevant to fault-tolerant computing. He also devised an elegant language for nondeterministic programming and its weakest precondition semantics, featured in his influential 1976 book A Discipline of Programming in which he advocated the development of programs in concert with their correctness proofs. In the later stages of his life, he devoted much attention to the development and presentation of mathematical proofs, providing further support to his long-held view that the programming process should be viewed as a mathematical activity." -- Back cover. |
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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 550 pages) : portraits. |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ردمك: | 9781450397742 1450397743 9781450397728 1450397727 1450397735 9781450397735 9781450397711 1450397719 |
| تدمد: | 2374-6777 ; |