Editing Edsger W. Dijkstra (section)

==Awards and honors==
Among Dijkstra's awards and honors are:<ref name="Dijkstra_bio"/>
* Member of the [[Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (1971)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00004832 |title=Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930–2002) |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |access-date=17 July 2015}}</ref>
* Distinguished Fellow of the [[British Computer Society]] (1971)
* The [[Association for Computing Machinery]]'s [[A.M. Turing Award]] (1972)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?srt=all&awd=140 |title=A. M. Turing Award |publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery]] |access-date=5 February 2011 |archive-date=12 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091212132624/http://awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?srt=all&awd=140 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Harry H. Goode Memorial Award]] from the [[IEEE Computer Society]] (1974).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/dijkstra|title=Edsger W. Dijkstra 1974 Harry H. Goode Memorial Award Recipient|publisher=[[IEEE Computer Society]]|access-date=17 January 2014}}</ref>
* 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)
* ACM/[[SIGCSE]] Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education (1989)
* [[ACM Fellow|Fellow]] of the [[Association for Computing Machinery]] (1994)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fellows.acm.org/homepage.cfm?alpha=D&srt=alpha |title=ACM Fellows – D |publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery]] |access-date=15 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124181256/http://fellows.acm.org/homepage.cfm?alpha=D&srt=alpha |archive-date=24 January 2011}}</ref>
* Honorary doctorate from the [[Athens University of Economics & Business]], Greece (2001).

In 1969, the [[British Computer Society]] (BCS) received approval for an award and fellowship, [[Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society]] (DFBCS), to be awarded under [[bylaw]] 7 of their [[royal charter]]. In 1971, the first election was made, to Dijkstra.<ref>{{cite web |title=Roll of Distinguished Fellows |url=http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/1650 |publisher=[[British Computer Society]] |access-date=10 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025814/http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/1650 |archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>

In 1990, on occasion of Dijkstra's 60th birthday, the Department of Computer Science (UTCS) at the University of Texas at Austin organized a two-day seminar in his honor. Speakers came from all over the United States and Europe, and a group of computer scientists contributed research articles which were edited into a book.<ref>{{Cite book 
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In 2002, the C&C Foundation of Japan recognized Dijkstra "for his pioneering contributions to the establishment of the scientific basis for computer software through creative research in basic software theory, algorithm theory, structured programming, and semaphores." Dijkstra was alive to receive notice of the award, but it was accepted by his family in an award ceremony after his death.

Shortly before his death in 2002, Dijkstra received the ACM [[PODC Influential-Paper Award]] in [[distributed computing]] for his work on self-stabilization of program computation. This annual award was renamed the [[Dijkstra Prize]] ([[Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing]]) the following year, in his honor.

The Dijkstra Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Computer Science ([[Loyola University Chicago]], Department of Computer Science) is named for Edsger W. Dijkstra. Beginning in 2005, this award recognizes the top academic performance by a graduating computer science major. Selection is based on GPA in all major courses and election by department faculty.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.luc.edu/cs/resources/undergraduateawards/ |title=Undergraduate Awards |publisher=Loyola University Chicago |access-date=2025-04-29}}</ref>

The Department of Computer Science (UTCS) at the University of Texas at Austin hosted the inaugural Edsger W. Dijkstra Memorial Lecture on 12 October 2010. [[Tony Hoare]], Emeritus Professor at Oxford and Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, was the speaker for the event. This lecture series was made possible by a generous grant from Schlumberger to honor the memory of Dijkstra.