Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist
Niklaus Emil Wirth was a Swiss computer scientist. He designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and pioneered several classic topics in software engineering. Wikipedia
Born: 1934, Winterthur, Switzerland
Died: January 1, 2024 (age 89 years), Zürich, Switzerland
Education: University of California, Berkeley (1963), Laval University (1960), and ETH Zürich (1959)
Parents: Walter Wirth and Hedwig Keller Wirth
Doctoral students: Martin Odersky, Michael Franz
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