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Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Stepwise Program Construction
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    Chapter 2 Parallelism in Multi-Record Transactions
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    Chapter 3 Finding the Maximum Strong Components in a Directed Graph
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    Chapter 4 Trip Report E. W. Dijkstra, Summer School Munich, July 25 to August 4, 1973
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    Chapter 5 The Solution to a Cyclic Relaxation Problem
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    Chapter 6 Trip Report IBM Seminar “Communication and Computers”, Newcastle, Sept. 1973
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    Chapter 7 Self-Stabilization in Spite of Distributed Control
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    Chapter 8 Acceptance Speech for the AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial Award 1974
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    Chapter 9 Speech at the Occasion of an Anniversary
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    Chapter 10 Inside “Mathematics Inc.”
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    Chapter 11 A Multidisciplinary Approach to Mathematics
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    Chapter 12 On the Role of Scientific Thought
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    Chapter 13 A Time-Wise Hierarchy Imposed upon the Use of a Two-Level Store
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    Chapter 14 A New Elephant Built from Mosquitoes Humming in Harmony
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    Chapter 15 Monotonic Replacement Algorithms and Their Implementation
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    Chapter 16 Trip Report E. W. Dijkstra, Meeting IFIP W.G.2.3, Munich, 8–14 December 1974
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    Chapter 17 Trip Report Visit ETH Zurich, 3–4 February 1975 by E. W. Dijkstra
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    Chapter 18 A Letter to My Old Friend Jonathan
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    Chapter 19 “Craftsman or Scientist?”
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    Chapter 20 Exercises in Making Programs Robust
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    Chapter 21 Trip Report E. W. Dijkstra 16th April/ 7th May, 1975, U.S.A. and Canada
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    Chapter 22 How Do We Tell Truths that Might Hurt?
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    Chapter 23 Variations on a Theme: An Open Letter to C. A. R. Hoare
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    Chapter 24 A Post-Scriptum to EWD501
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    Chapter 25 Erratum and Embellishments of EWD503
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    Chapter 26 A Synthesis Emerging?
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    Chapter 27 Comments at a Symposium
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    Chapter 28 Trip Report E. W. Dijkstra, Newcastle, 8–12 September 1975
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    Chapter 29 On a Warning from E. A. Hauck
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    Chapter 30 More on Hauck’s Warning
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    Chapter 31 A Collection of Beautiful Proofs
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    Chapter 32 Mathematics Inc., a Private Letter from Its Chairman
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    Chapter 33 A Personal Summary of the Gries—Owicki Theory
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    Chapter 34 A “Non Trip Report” from E. W. Dijkstra
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    Chapter 35 Formal Techniques and Sizeable Programs
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    Chapter 36 An Exercise for Dr. R. M. Burstall
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    Chapter 37 A Great Improvement
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    Chapter 38 To H. D. Mills, Chairman Software Methodology Panel
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    Chapter 39 On Subgoal Induction
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    Chapter 40 Trip Report E. W. Dijkstra, ECI-Conference 9–12 August 1976, Amsterdam
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    Chapter 41 More About the Function “fusc” (A Sequel to EWD570)
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    Chapter 42 A Proof of a Theorem Communicated to Us by S. Ghosh
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    Chapter 43 Trip Report E. W. Dijkstra, Poland and USSR, 4–25 September 1976
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    Chapter 44 Trip Report E. W. Dijkstra, Tokyo, 28 Sept-3 Oct. 1976
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    Chapter 45 A Parable
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    Chapter 46 Trip Report E. W. Dijkstra, St. Pierre-de-Chartreuse, 12–19 Dec. 1976
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    Chapter 47 A Correctness Proof for Communicating Processes: A Small Exercise
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    Chapter 48 An Elephant Inspired by the Dutch National Flag
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    Chapter 49 On the Fact that the Atlantic Ocean Has Two Sides
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    Chapter 50 Trip Report E. W. Dijkstra, Australia, 16 February 1977–21 March 1977
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    Chapter 51 A Somewhat Open Letter to EAA or: Why I Proved the Boundedness of the Nondeterminacy in the Way I Did
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    Chapter 52 On Webster, Users, Bugs, and Aristotle
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    Chapter 53 On Making Solutions More and More Fine-Grained
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    Chapter 54 The Mathematics Behind the Banker’s Algorithm
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    Chapter 55 On Two Beautiful Solutions Designed by Martin Rem
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    Chapter 56 Trip Report E. W. Dijkstra, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 5–10 Sept. 1977
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    Chapter 57 Why Naive Program Transformation Systems Are Unlikely to Work
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    Chapter 58 The Three Golden Rules for Successful Scientific Research
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    Chapter 59 The Introduction of MAES®
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    Chapter 60 A Class of Simple Communication Patterns
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    Chapter 61 “Why is Software So Expensive?” An Explanation to the Hardware Designer
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    Chapter 62 A Theorem About Odd Powers of Odd Integers
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    Chapter 63 Program Inversion
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    Chapter 64 On Weak and Strong Termination
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    Chapter 65 The Equivalence of Bounded Nondeterminacy and Continuity
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    Chapter 66 A Story that Starts with a Very Good Computer
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Title
Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective
Published by
Springer Science & Business Media, January 1982
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4612-5695-3
ISBNs
978-1-4612-5695-3, 978-1-4612-5697-7
Authors

Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dijkstra, Edsger W.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 4%
Brazil 2 2%
Portugal 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 97 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 19%
Researcher 13 12%
Student > Master 10 9%
Student > Bachelor 8 7%
Other 7 6%
Other 19 18%
Unknown 31 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 50 46%
Engineering 5 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 4%
Philosophy 3 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 2%
Other 11 10%
Unknown 33 31%