Professor Dijkstra once said, “Computer science is no more ... Similarly, the algorithm is used for communications networks and airline flight plans. He “owned” a nonexistent company.

Consider the problem of finding the shortest path between two points on a graph — a network of nodes connected ... The story begins in 1956, when the Dutch computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra developed ...

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, one of the creators ... of the scientific basis for computer software through creative research in basic software theory, algorithm theory, structured programming and ...