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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...
Jan 4, 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 work influenced generations of programmers.
Jan 4, 2024 · The Swiss computer scientist, who won the Turing Award in 1984, passed away on New Year's Day at 89. He was known for his contributions to programming languages, operating systems, and software engineering.
- Liam Proven
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.
Feb 28, 2024 · Another muse was a software visionary in Switzerland, Niklaus Wirth, whose elegantly simple coding language, Pascal, helped power the personal-computer revolution at Apple in the 1980s and ...
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.
