Niklaus Wirth
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Niklaus Emil Wirth (b. February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming language, 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.
Wirth was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1934. In 1959 he earned a degree in Electronics Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH). In 1960 he earned an M.Sc. from Université Laval, Canada. Then in 1963 he was awarded a Ph.D. EECS from the University of California, Berkeley, supervised by the computer designer pioneer Harry Huskey.
From 1963 to 1967 he served as assistant professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and again at the University of Zurich. Then in 1968 he became Professor of Informatics at ETH Zurich, taking a two year sabbatical at Xerox PARC in California. Wirth retired in 1999.
Wirth was the chief designer of the...
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