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Peter Naur (25 October 1928 – 3 January 2016) [1] was a Danish computer science pioneer and 2005 Turing award winner. He is best remembered as a contributor, with John Backus, to the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation used in describing the syntax for most programming languages.
Peter Naur was born in 1928 in Frederiksberg Denmark as the last of three children in an anti-religious family. His father, Albert, was a painter. His mother, Susanna Margarethe, had no particular profession but came from a wealthy commercial background. Both artistic and business-oriented people, such as actors, playwrights, and architects, visited the Naur home on a regular basis. Even ...
May 1, 2024 · Peter Naur, Danish astronomer and computer scientist and winner of the 2005 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science, for ‘fundamental contributions to programming language design and the definition of Algol 60, to compiler design, and to the art and practice of computer programming.’.
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Peter Naur, born 1928, Danish scientist, mag. scient. in astronomy 1949, dr. phil. 1957. 1953-59 at Københavns Universitets Astronomiske Observatorium. 1959-69 at Regnecentralen and lecturer at Danmarks Tekniske Højskole and Niels Bohr Institute. 1969-98 professor of Datalogi at Københavns Universitet.
PETER. NAUR, A Danish computer scientist and 2005 recipi-ent of the ACM A.M. Tur-ing Award for fundamental contributions to program-ming language design and the defini-tion of Algol 60, to compiler design, and to the art and practice of com-puter programming, died January 3 after a brief illness. Born in Fredricksberg, Denmark, Naur studied ...
Recommendations. Comments. Abstract. What mathematical rigor has and has not to offer to software engineers. Peter Naur wrote his first research paper at the age of 16. Soon an internationally acclaimed astronomer, Naur's expertise in numerical analysis gave him access to computers from 1950.
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Peter Naur was editor of the hugely-influential Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60, and directly responsible for the definition's rigor and for the language's elegance, uniformity and coherence. He extended a syntax definition notation due to John Backus to create the widely used Backus-Naur Form (BNF).
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