Awards & Winners

Niklaus Wirth

Date of Birth 15-February-1934
Place of Birth Winterthur
(Winterthur District, Switzerland, Canton of Zurich)
Nationality Switzerland
Also know as Niklaus Emil Wirth
Profession Engineer, Computer Scientist
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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.

Awards by Niklaus Wirth

Check all the awards nominated and won by Niklaus Wirth.

1984


Turing Award
(For developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL)