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Niklaus Emil Wirth (15 February 1934 – 1 January 2024) was a Swiss computer scientist. He designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and pioneered several classic topics in software engineering.
Feb 22, 2024 · Dr. Wirth died of heart failure on Jan. 1 at his home in Zurich, his daughter Tina Wirth said. He was 89.
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.
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
May 1, 2024 · Niklaus Emil Wirth (born February 15, 1934, Winterthur, Switzerland—died January 1, 2024, Zürich) was a Swiss computer scientist and winner of the 1984 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science, for “developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL .”.
Jan 5, 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) in 1959, an MSc from Laval University (1960), and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley (1963).
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