Niklaus Wirth
Computer Scientist
1934 –
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Who is Niklaus Wirth?
Niklaus Emil Wirth is a Swiss computer scientist, 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 for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.
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- Born
- Feb 15, 1934
Winterthur - Also known as
- Niklaus Emil Wirth
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Profession
- Education
- Doctorate, University of California, Berkeley
EECS
( - 1963) - Master of Science, Université Laval
( - 1960) - ETH Zurich
Electronic engineering
- Doctorate, University of California, Berkeley
- Employment
- PARC
- Professor of Informatics, ETH Zurich
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Zurich
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
(1963 - 1967)
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on July 23, 2013
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