{"product_id":"selected-writings-on-computing-a-personal-perspective-monographs-in-computer-science-9780387906522","title":"Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective (Monographs in Computer Science)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective (Monographs in Computer Science)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Dijkstra, Edsger W.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780387906522.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince the summer of 1973, when I became a Burroughs Research Fellow, my life has been very different from what it had been before. The daily routine changed: instead of going to the University each day, where I used to spend most of my time in the company of others, I now went there only one day a week and was most of the time -that is, when not travelling!- alone in my study. In my solitude, mail and the written word in general became more and more important. The circumstance that my employer and I had the Atlantic Ocean between us was a further incentive to keep a fairly complete record of what I was doing. The public part of that output found its place in what became known as \"the EWD series\", which can be viewed as a form of scientific correspondence, possible since the advent of the copier. (That same copier makes it hard to estimate its actual distribution: I myself made about two dozen copies of my texts, but their recipients were welcome to act as further nodes of the distribution tree. ) The decision to publish a se1ection from the EWD series in book form was at first highly embarrassing, but as the months went by I got used to the idea. As soon as some guiding principles had been adopted -preferably not published elsewhere, as varied and as representative as possible, etc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966823002165,"sku":"ByrdShop_0387906525","price":316.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780387906522_a98b8f8f-2ab3-4bc7-b8bd-848d66bf6dd6.jpg?v=1781406785","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/selected-writings-on-computing-a-personal-perspective-monographs-in-computer-science-9780387906522","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}