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Feb 28, 2024 · Niklaus Wirth, software developer who saw power in simplicity, dies at 89. ‘The art in engineering is not so much to make something very complicated,’ Dr. Wirth said. ‘The art is to make a...
Mar 4, 2024 · Niklaus Wirth, Who Inspired a Generation of Computer Programmers, Dies at 89. The Turing Award winner had a mantra for computing and much of life: simplify. By. Chris Kornelis. Updated March 4,...
Niklaus E. Wirth. Switzerland – 1984. CITATION. For developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL. PASCAL has become pedagogically significant and has provided a foundation for future computer language, systems, and architectural research. Short Annotated. Bibliography. ACM Turing Award. Lecture. Research
Apr 1, 2024 · Computer pioneer Niklaus Wirth died on 1 January 2024, just weeks before his 90th birthday. The long-serving ETH Professor of Computer Science achieved world fame by developing the Pascal programming language in the 1970s.
Apr 2, 2024 · Niklaus Wirth was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1934. He received the degree of electronics engineer from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (eth-Zurich) (1959), an MSC from Laval University (1960), and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley (1963).
Mar 12, 2021 · Niklaus Wirth was a professor at ETH Zurich from 1968 to 1999. He was a leading force in establishing the department and the study programme of computer science.
The overriding philosophy of computing pioneer Niklaus Wirth, who died on January 1, 2024, was that systems should be simple, efficient, and “elegant.” By Simson Garfinkel and Eugene H. Spafford. Posted Feb 22 2024. Download PDF. Join the Discussion. View in the ACM Digital Library.
