Birth Name:

Niklaus Wirth

Male

Birth Date:

Thu, Feb 15, 1934

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland

Age:

90

Zodiac Sign:

Aquarius

Astrology Data:

Sun

26°

Aqu

5'

About Niklaus Wirth

Niklaus Emil Wirth (born 15 February 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist. He has designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and pioneered several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984, he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Official website, ETH Zürich

• Biography at ETH Zürich

• Niklaus Wirth at DBLP Bibliography Server

• Niklaus E. Wirth at ACM

• Wirth, Niklaus (April 1971). "Program Development by Stepwise Refinement". Communications of the ACM. 14 (4): 221–227. doi:10.1145/362575.362577. hdl:20.500.11850/80846. S2CID 13214445.

• Wirth, N. (1974). "On the Design of Programming Languages" (PDF). Proc. IFIP Congress 74: 386–393.

• Turing Award Lecture, 1984

• Pascal and its Successors paper by Niklaus Wirth – also includes short biography.

• A Few Words with Niklaus Wirth

• The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity, by László Böszörményi, Jürg Gutknecht, Gustav Pomberger (editors). dpunkt.verlag; Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000. ISBN 3-932588-85-1, ISBN 1-55860-723-4.

• The book Compiler Construction

• The book Algorithms and Data Structures

• The book Project Oberon – The Design of an Operating System and Compiler. The book about the Oberon language and Operating System is now available as a PDF file. The PDF file has an additional appendix Ten Years After: From Objects to Components.

• Project Oberon 2013

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Niklaus Wirth: Sun 26 Aquarius, Moon 15 Pisces, Mercury 13 Pisces, Venus 10 Aquarius, Mars 8 Pisces, Jupiter 23 Libra, Saturn 19 Aquarius, Uranus 24 Aries, Neptune 11 Virgo, Pluto 23 Cancer, Mercury Opposition Neptune, Sun Sextile Uranus, Sun Trine Jupiter, Sun Conjunct Saturn, Mercury Conjunct Mars, Venus Semi Sextile Mars, Venus Quincunx Neptune, Mars Sesquiquadrate Jupiter, Mars Semi Square Uranus, Mars Opposition Neptune, Mars Sesquiquadrate Pluto, Jupiter Trine Saturn, Jupiter Opposition Uranus, Jupiter Square Pluto, Uranus Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Uranus Square Pluto

Categories related to Niklaus Wirth: Living people, Programming language designers, February 15 births, ETH Zurich alumni, Université Laval alumni, Biography with signature, Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery, Formal methods people, Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class), Computer science educators, Scientists at PARC (company), ETH Zurich faculty, People from Winterthur, Programming language researchers, Turing Award laureates, UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni, 1934 births, Swiss computer scientists, Swiss electronics engineers, Pascal (programming language)

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