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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 · In 1999, an up-and-coming software engineer in Switzerland was preparing for a conference in France when he learned that the Swiss computer scientist Niklaus Wirth, a pioneer in the field, was...
Apr 1, 2024 · ETH Zurich mourns the loss of its long-serving professor and Turing Award winner, who developed influential programming languages and helped establish computer science in Switzerland. Wirth was known for his passion, simplicity and elegance in software design and his vision of a personal computer for everyone.
Jan 5, 2024 · With sadness we note the passing of Niklaus Emil Wirth, Swiss computer scientist and 2004 CHM Fellow, who died at the age of 89 on January 1, 2024. Niklaus Wirth was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1934.
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 4, 2024 · Obit Swiss computer scientist Professor Niklaus Wirth died on New Year's Day, roughly six weeks before what would have been his 90th birthday. Wirth is justly celebrated as the creator of the Pascal programming language, but that was only one step in a series of important languages and research projects.
Niklaus Wirth was a Swiss computer scientist who developed innovative languages such as Euler, Algol-W, Modula and Pascal. He received the ACM Turing Award in 1984 for his contributions to programming language design and implementation, and influenced generations of computer scientists and engineers.
