Niklaus Wirth Biography (15/Feb/1934 –- 01/Jan/2024)
1.Birth:
Winterthur, Switzerland, February 15 1934.
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.
Both asteroid 21655 and a law of computer design are named after him.
He won computer-science boffinry's highest possible gong, the Turing Award, in 1984
2.Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich—ETH Zürich, 1959)
M.Sc. (Université Laval, Canada, 1960)
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) (University of California, Berkeley, 1963)
3.Experience:
Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Stanford University, 1963—1967)
Assistant Professor (University of Zurich, 1967—1968)
Professor of Informatics (ETH Zürich, 1968—1999), (one-year sabbaticals at Xerox PARC 1976–1977 and 1984–1985)
4.Honors And Awards:
ACM Turing Award (1984) https://youtu.be/SUgrS_KbSI8
IEEE Computer Society, Computer Pioneer Award (1988)
IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize 1988 (1989)
5.Links:
https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/wirth_1025774.cfm
https://inf.ethz.ch/news-and-events/spotlights/infk-news-channel/2021/12/niklaus-wirth-video-interview-part3.html
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obituary/
6.Niklaus Wirth in conversation with Friedemann Mattern:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAUS02ec3ow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQvmo89lPSE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWyrAv1QY7c
7.Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs:
Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs is a 1976 book written by Niklaus Wirth covering some of the fundamental topics of system engineering, computer programming.
The book was one of the most influential computer science books of the time and, like Wirth's other work, was extensively used in education.
The Turbo Pascal compiler written by Anders Hejlsberg was largely inspired by the Tiny Pascal compiler in Niklaus Wirth's book.
Algorithms and Data Structures © N. Wirth 1985 (Oberon version: August 2004)