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In 1984, Edsger W. Dijkstra accepted the Schlumberger Centennial Chair at the University of Texas at Austin. This prestigious position was established to honor the 100th anniversary of the Schlumberger company, a leading provider of technology and services to the oil and gas industry. Dijkstra, a renowned computer scientist known for his work on algorithms and programming languages, held the chair until his retirement in 1999.