Twenty Minutes in Amsterdam
Posted on Wed 17 June 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with algorithms, dijkstra, pathfinding, google maps, graph theory, contraction hierarchies, computer science, navigation, history
In 1956, a man who couldn't legally call himself a programmer solved one of the hardest problems in computer science over coffee in Amsterdam. Seventy years later, his 20-minute invention still does the routing.
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