http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-378327,00.html THE WORK of the computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra shaped the way that programming is practised ... Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist, was born in Rotterdam on May 11, 1930. He died after a long illness in Nuenen, The Netherlands, on August 6, 2002, aged 72. ...