Edsger W. Dijkstra - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

Among Dijkstra's awards and honors are:

  • Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1971)
  • Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society (1971)
  • The Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award (1972)
  • Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1975)
  • Doctor of Science Honoris Causa from the Queen's University Belfast (1976)
  • Computer Pioneer Charter Recipient from the IEEE Computer Society (1982)
  • Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1994)
  • Honorary doctorate from the Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece (2001).
  • Computer and Communications Prize (NEC Foundation), Japan (2002)

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