Edsger W. Dijkstra

In the autumn of 2000, the Dutch broadcasting organization VPRO Television visited Austin to make a video of a visit with the most famous Dutch computing scientist. The product of this project was broadcast in April 2001 as a 25-minute episode of the science series Noorderlicht, under the title "Denken Als Discipline".

Dijkstra is regarded as one of the pioneers of computer science. In additions to his contributions to the advance of Computer Science he is know for his rigid adherence to logic and, as is the name of the program, thinking as a disipline.

Over the years Dijkstra provoked as many as he enlightened.