Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective

Since the summer of 1973, when I became a Burroughs Research Fellow, my life has been very different from what it had been before. The daily routine changed: instead of going to the University each day, where I used to spend most of my time in the company of others, I now went there only one day a w...

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Main Author: Dijkstra, Edsger W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 1982, 1982
Edition:1st ed. 1982
Series:Monographs in Computer Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a EWD561 A “Non Trip Report” from E. W. Dijkstra -- EWD563 Formal Techniques and Sizeable Programs -- EWD570 An Exercise for Dr. R. M. Burstall -- EWD573 A Great Improvement -- EWD575 To H. D. Mills, Chairman Software Methodology Panel -- EWD576 On Subgoal Induction -- EWD577 Trip Report E. W. Dijkstra, ECI-Conferenee 9–12 August 1976, Amsterdam -- EWD578 More About the Function “fusc” (A Sequel to EWD570) -- EWD582 A Proof of a Theorem Communicated to Us by S. Ghosh -- EWD584 Trip Report E. W. Dijkstra, Poland and USSR, 4–25 September 1976 -- EWD585 Trip Report E. W. Dijkstra, Tokyo, 28 Sept.–3 Oct. 1976 -- EWD594 A Parable -- EWD603 Trip Report E. W. Dijkstra, St. Pierre-de-Chartreuse, 12–19 Dec. 1976 -- EWD607 A Correctness Proof for Communicating Processes: A Small Exercise -- EWD608 An Elephant Inspired by the Dutch National Flag -- EWD611 On the Fact that the Atlantic Ocean Has Two Sides --  
505 0 |a EWD227 Stepwise Program Construction -- EWD338 Parallelism in Multi-Record Transactions (Co-author: C. S. Scholten) -- EWD376 Finding the Maximum Strong Components in a Directed Graph -- EWD385 Trip Report E. W. Dijkstra, Summer School Munich, July 25 to August 4, 1973 -- EWD386 The Solution to a Cyclic Relaxation Problem -- EWD387 Trip Report IBM Seminar “Communication and Computers”, Newcastle, Sept. 1973 -- EWD391 Self-Stabilization in Spite of Distributed Control -- EWD407 Acceptance Speech for the AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial Award 1974 -- EWD427 Speech at the Occasion of an Anniversary -- EWD442 Inside “Mathematics Inc.” -- EWD443 A Multidisciplinary Approach to Mathematics -- EWD447 On the Role of Scientific Thought -- EWD462 A Time-Wise Hierarchy Imposed upon the Use of a Two-Level Store -- EWD464 A New Elephant Built from Mosquitoes Humming in Harmony -- EWD465 Monotonic Replacement Algorithms and Their Implementation --  
505 0 |a EWD466 Trip Report E.W. Dijkstra, Meeting IFIP W.G.2.3., Munich, 8–14 December 1974 -- EWD474 Trip Report Visit ETH Zurich, 3–4 February 1975 by E.W. Dijkstra -- EWD475 A Letter to My Old Friend Jonathan -- EWD480 “Craftsman or Scientist?” -- EWD482 Exercises in Making Programs Robust -- EWD494 Trip Report E.W. Dijkstra 16th April/7th May, 1975, U.S.A. and Canada -- EWD498 How Do We Tell Truths that Might Hurt? -- EWD501 Variations on a Theme: An Open Letter to C. A. R. Hoare -- EWD503 A Post-Scriptum to EWD501 -- EWD504 Erratum and Embellishments of EWD503 -- EWD508 A Synthesis Emerging? -- EWD512 Comments at a Symposium -- EWD513 Trip Report E. W. Dijkstra, Newcastle, 8–12 September 1975 -- EWD525 On a Warning from E. A. Hauck -- EWD528 More on Hauck’s Warning -- EWD538 A Collection of Beautiful Proofs -- EWD539 Mathematics Inc., a Private Letter from ItsChairman -- EWD554 A Personal Summary of the Gries-Owicki Theory --  
505 0 |a EWD613 Trip Report E. W. Dijkstra, Australia, 16 February 1977–21 March 1977 -- EWD614 A Somewhat Open Letter to EAA or: Why I Proved the Boundedness of the Nondeterminacy in the Way I Did -- EWD618 On Webster, Users, Bugs, and Aristotle -- EWD622 On Making Solutions More and More Fine-Grained -- EWD623 The Mathematics Behind the Banker’s Algorithm -- EWD629 On Two Beautiful Solutions Designed by Martin Rem -- EWD635 Trip Report E. W. Dijkstra, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 5–10 Sept. 1977 -- EWD636 Why Naive Program Transformation Systems Are Unlikely to Work -- EWD637 The Three Golden Rules for Successful Scientific Research -- EWD639 The Introduction of MAES® -- EWD643 A Class of Simple Communication Patterns -- EWD648 “Why Is Software So Expensive?” An Explanation to the Hardware Designer -- EWD650 A Theorem About OddPowers of Odd Integers -- EWD671 Program Inversion -- EWD673 On Weak and Strong Termination -- EWD675 The Equivalence of Bounded Nondeterminacy and Continuity --  
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520 |a Since the summer of 1973, when I became a Burroughs Research Fellow, my life has been very different from what it had been before. The daily routine changed: instead of going to the University each day, where I used to spend most of my time in the company of others, I now went there only one day a week and was most of the time -that is, when not travelling!- alone in my study. In my solitude, mail and the written word in general became more and more important. The circumstance that my employer and I had the Atlantic Ocean between us was a further incentive to keep a fairly complete record of what I was doing. The public part of that output found its place in what became known as "the EWD series", which can be viewed as a form of scientific correspondence, possible since the advent of the copier. (That same copier makes it hard to estimate its actual distribution: I myself made about two dozen copies of my texts, but their recipients were welcome to act as further nodes of the distribution tree. ) The decision to publish a se1ection from the EWD series in book form was at first highly embarrassing, but as the months went by I got used to the idea. As soon as some guiding principles had been adopted -preferably not published elsewhere, as varied and as representative as possible, etc