Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024)
Niklaus Emil Wirth (15 February 1934 – 1 January 2024) was a Swiss computer scientist. He was best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for creating several classic topics in software engineering.
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| Born | Niklaus Emil Wirth 15 February 1934 |
| Died | 1 January 2024 (aged 89) |
| Citizenship | Switzerland |
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| Known for | Algol W, Euler, Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, Oberon, Oberon-2, Oberon-07, Oberon System |
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| Fields | Computer Science |
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In 1984 he won the Turing Award, which is seen as the highest award in computer science.[2][3] He won the award for creating a sequence of important computer languages.[4]
He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2007.[5]
Wirth died on 1 January 2024 at the age of 89.[6]
References
change- ↑ "Niklaus Wirth 2004 Fellow". Archived from the original on 2016-04-09. Retrieved 2016-01-06.
- ↑ Dasgupta, Sanjoy; Papadimitriou, Christos; Vazirani, Umesh (2008). Algorithms. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-352340-8., p. 317.
- ↑ "dblp: ACM Turing Award Lectures". www.informatik.uni-trier.de. Archived from the original on 2015-01-02. Retrieved 2016-01-06.
- ↑ "Niklaus E. Wirth - A.M. Turing Award Laureate". amturing.acm.org.
- ↑ "THE TREE NEWSLETTER" (PDF). Academia Europaea. June 2007. p. 15. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ↑ Niklaus Wirth ist tot: IT-Welt trauert um Erfinder von Pascal (in German)
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