Burroughs Corporation Records

Edsger W. Dijkstra Papers, 1971-1979

CBI 90

Series 31

Collection Size: 1 cubic ft. (1 box)

Creator: Dijkstra, Edsger W.

Prepared By: Susan A. Stepka, August 1995

Acquisition: The records were given to the Charles Babbage Institute by Unisys Corporation in 1991, accession 991-35.

Access: Access to the collection is unrestricted.

Copyright: The Charles Babbagae Institute holds the copyright to all materials in the collection, except for items covered by a prior copyright (such as published materials). Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Preferred Citation: Burroughs Corporation Records, Edsger W. Dijkstra Papers (CBI 90), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Biographical Note

Edsger W. Dikjstra began programming in 1952 at the Mathematisch Centrum. He became a professor of mathematics at Eindhoven University of Technology in 1962 adding work as a research fellow with Burroughs Corporation in 1973. In 1984, Dijkstra left the Netherlands to accept the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.

Scope and Content Note

Collection contains articles and reports Dijkstra wrote about all aspects of the programming field. Most were written while he was a research fellow for Burroughs in the Netherlands. The documents are arranged by number with an index that lists the titles of a portion of the articles or reports. Click here for a complete title list of reports in the collection. The collection also contains an article Dijkstra wrote for Communications of the ACM (Oct. 1972 - Vol.15, #10) entitled "The Humble Programmer." There is also a very small amount of administrative correspondence regarding the articles and reports Dijkstra wrote. 

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