# Edsger W. Dijkstra

> The algorithm that finds the shortest path between two points - the one running beneath every GPS route, every network packet, every optimization you've ever trusted a machine to calculate - came from a Dutch programmer in 1956 who worked it out to demonstrate the power of a new computer.

*Dutch computer scientist (1930-2002)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Developer ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740))
- **Category:** Developers
- **Country:** Netherlands
- **Born:** 1930-05-11
- **Died:** 2002-08-06
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra studied theoretical physics at Leiden, then took a job in 1952 as the first computer programmer in the Netherlands at the Mathematical Centre in Amsterdam. He formulated the shortest path problem in 1956, built the first compiler for ALGOL 60 in 1960, and by the late 1960s had designed the THE multiprogramming system, pioneering software-based paged virtual memory that shaped operating systems for decades. In 1973 he joined Burroughs Corporation as its sole research fellow and wrote nearly 500 technical reports in his "EWD" series, circulated to a select group. He moved to the University of Texas at Austin in 1984, won the Turing Award in 1972 for work on structured programming, and received an award in distributed computing shortly before his death in 2002.

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