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    Adriaan "Aad" van Wijngaarden (2 November 1916 – 7 February 1987) was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Van...
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    Edsger W. Dijkstra (category Dutch computer scientists)
    theoretical physics at the University of Leiden. Adriaan van Wijngaarden offered him a job as the first computer programmer in the Netherlands at the Mathematical...
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  • "Wijngaarden". People with this name include: Adriaan van Wijngaarden (1916–1987), Dutch mathematician and computer scientist He devised a.o. the Van Wijngaarden...
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  • – database management systems Norbert Wiener – Cybernetics Adriaan van WijngaardenDutch pioneer; ARRA, ALGOL, IFIP WG 2.1 member Mary Allen Wilkes...
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    gained his doctorate in 1974 under Adriaan van Wijngaarden. The Van Emde Boas tree is named after him. Dr. P. van Emde Boas, 1945 - at the University...
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    (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial...
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    thesis supervisor was Adriaan van Wijngaarden, who also supervised another notable Dutch computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra. Van Emden spent 1971 to...
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  • (1909–1995), Dutch astronomer Adriaan van Wijngaarden (1916–1987), Dutch mathematician and computer scientist Adriaan van der Willigen Pz. (1810–1876), Dutch doctor...
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  • politician Adriaan van Wijngaarden, Dutch computer scientist and developer of Van Wijngaarden grammar and co-designer of ALGOL Herman Zanstra, Dutch astronomer...
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    Cornelis H. A. Koster (category Dutch computer scientists)
    he worked at the Mathematisch Centrum (MC) in Amsterdam under Adriaan van Wijngaarden. There he was one of the editors of the original Report on the...
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