Niklaus Wirth
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]
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References
- ↑ Niklaus Wirth 2004 Fellow. Retrieved 2016-01-06.
- ↑ Dasgupta, Sanjoy. Algorithms (2008)McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-352340-8., p. 317.
- ↑ dblp: ACM Turing Award Lectures. www.informatik.uni-trier.de. Retrieved 2016-01-06.
- ↑ Niklaus E. Wirth - A.M. Turing Award Laureate. amturing.acm.org.
- ↑ THE TREE NEWSLETTER (in en) (June 2007)Academia Europaea. p. 15. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ↑ Niklaus Wirth ist tot: IT-Welt trauert um Erfinder von Pascal (in German)