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Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

Biography MathSciNet

Ph.D. Universiteit van Amsterdam 1959

Dissertation: Communication with an Automatic Computer

Mathematics Subject Classification: 68—Computer science

Advisor: Adriaan van Wijngaarden

Students:
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Name	School	Year	Descendants
Arie Habermann	Technische Universiteit Eindhoven	1967	204
Cornelis Hemerik	Technische Universiteit Eindhoven	1984	1
David Naumann	University of Texas at Austin	1992	2
Martin Rem	Technische Universiteit Eindhoven	1976	51
Jan Udding	Technische Universiteit Eindhoven	1984	2
Johannes van de Snepscheut	Technische Universiteit Eindhoven	1983	16
Antonetta van Gasteren	Technische Universiteit Eindhoven	1988

According to our current on-line database, Edsger Dijkstra has 7 students and 263 descendants.
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