Editing Edsger W. Dijkstra (section)

===Last years===
Dijkstra worked in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]] until his retirement  in November 1999. To mark the occasion and to celebrate his forty-plus years of seminal contributions to [[computer science|computing science]], the Department of Computer Sciences organized a symposium, which took place on his 70th birthday in May 2000.<ref name="Dijkstra_bio"/>

Dijkstra and his wife returned from Austin to his original house in Nuenen, Netherlands, where he found that he had only months to live. He said that he wanted to retire in Austin, [[Texas]], but to die in the Netherlands. Dijkstra died on 6 August 2002 after a long struggle with cancer.<ref name="Goodwins"/><ref>{{Cite web|date=7 August 2002|title=World-renowned University of Texas at Austin computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra dies|url=https://news.utexas.edu/2002/08/07/world-renowned-university-of-texas-at-austin-computer-scientist-edsger-dijkstra-dies/|access-date=4 August 2020|website=UT News|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Dale|first1=Nell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ENGBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA316|title=Computer Science Illuminated|last2=Lewis|first2=John|date=31 December 2014|publisher=Jones & Bartlett Publishers|isbn=978-1-284-05592-4|pages=316|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=2002|title=Edsger Dijkstra Passes Away|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EWdVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22passed+away+on+August+6,+2002%22|journal=Dr. Dobb's Journal|volume=27|pages=14}}</ref> He and his wife were survived by their three children: Marcus, Femke, and the computer scientist Rutger M. Dijkstra.<ref name="Markoff 2002 n206">{{cite web | last=Markoff | first=John | title=Edsger Dijkstra, 72, Physicist Who Shaped Computer Era | website=The New York Times | date=10 August 2002 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/10/us/edsger-dijkstra-72-physicist-who-shaped-computer-era.html | access-date=11 February 2024}}</ref>