What was Dijkstra's major contribution to computer science?
Hardware design
Structured programming languages
Networking
Database systems
Answer
Dijkstra's major contribution to computer science was not structured programming languages, but rather the development of the shortest path algorithm, also known as Dijkstra's algorithm. This algorithm efficiently finds the shortest path between two nodes in a weighted graph, and has applications in various fields such as network routing and optimization problems.
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