EDSGER DIJKSTRA WASIFU Slideshow Loading... Tuesday, September 4, 2012 EDSGER DIJKSTRA Edsger Wybe Dijkstra  (May 11, 1930 – August 6, 2002) was a  Dutch   computer scientist . He received the 1972  Turing Award  for fundamental contributions to developing programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The