Niklaus Wirth

Niklaus E. Wirth
Niklaus E. Wirth
Born	15 February 1934 (age 89); Winterthur, Switzerland
Citizenship	Switzerland
Alma mater	ETH Zurich (B.S., 1959); Université Laval (M.S., 1959); University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1963);
Known for	Algol W, Euler, Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, Oberon, Oberon-2, Oberon-07, Oberon System
Awards	Turing Award (1984); SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award; Fellow of the Computer History Museum (2004); Marcel Benoist Prize (1989);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	ETH Zurich; Stanford University; University of Zurich; Xerox PARC;

Niklaus Emil Wirth (born 15 February 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist. He is best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science,^[2]^[3] for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.^[4]

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↑ "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.
↑ "Niklaus E. Wirth - A.M. Turing Award Laureate". amturing.acm.org.

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[1] "Niklaus Wirth 2004 Fellow". Archived from the original on 2016-04-09. Retrieved 2016-01-06.

[2] Dasgupta, Sanjoy; Papadimitriou, Christos; Vazirani, Umesh (2008). Algorithms. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-352340-8., p. 317.

[3] "dblp: ACM Turing Award Lectures". www.informatik.uni-trier.de.

[4] "Niklaus E. Wirth - A.M. Turing Award Laureate". amturing.acm.org.

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