Editing Edsger W. Dijkstra (section)

===Burroughs Corporation===
Dijkstra joined the [[Burroughs Corporation]]—a company known then for producing computers based on an innovative hardware architecture—as its [[research fellow]] in August 1973. His duties consisted of visiting some of the firm's research centers a few times a year and carrying on his own research, which he did in the smallest Burroughs research facility, namely, his study on the second floor of his house in Nuenen. In fact, Dijkstra was the only research fellow of Burroughs and worked for it from home, occasionally travelling to its branches in the United States. As a result, he reduced his appointment at the university to one day a week. That day, Tuesday, soon became known as the day of the famous 'Tuesday Afternoon Club', a seminar during which he discussed with his colleagues scientific articles, looking at all aspects: notation, organisation, presentation, language, content, etc. Shortly after,  he moved in 1984 to the [[University of Texas at Austin]] (USA), a new 'branch' of the Tuesday Afternoon Club emerged in [[Austin, Texas]].<ref name="Apt, Krzysztof R. 2002"/>

The Burroughs years saw him at his most prolific in output of research articles. He wrote nearly 500 documents in the EWD series (described below), most of them technical reports, for private circulation within a select group.<ref name="Dijkstra_bio"/>