Alan Kay, the famed computer scientist, says he didn’t really know what the term “computer science” meant in 1966, when he read a lengthy description of a programming language written by a Swiss ...
Wirth received a Turing Award in 1984 for his contributions to computer science, with his Pascal coding language being described as a foundation for future systems. Niklaus Wirth, the creator of ...
Der Computerpionier Niklaus Wirth ist am 1. Januar 2024 fast 90- jährig verstorben. Der langjährige ETH- Professor für Informatik wurde durch die Entwicklung der Programmiersprache Pascal ab 1970 ...
More than a few computing luminaries have sadly passed over recently, unsurprising given many pioneers from the fifties, sixties, and seventies reaching end of life. One who caught my eye was Niklaus ...
Niklaus Wirth ist tot. Dies erklärte Bertrand Meyer, der seinerzeit Wirths Nachfolge auf dem Lehrstuhl für Software-Engineering am ETH Zürich übernahm, in jüngster Vergangenheit über X/Twitter. Noch ...
In the late 1970s, an ambitious new computer company called Apple started to brainstorm its next steps as the age of home computers suddenly seemed a reality. The company had already made a mark with ...
In 1999, an up-and-coming software engineer in Switzerland was preparing for a conference in France when he learned that Swiss computer scientist Niklaus Wirth, a pioneer in the field, was also ...
Niklaus Emil Wirth, the creator of Pascal, winner of a Turing award, and fellow of the Computer History Museum, passed away on 1 January 2024 at the age of 89. Wirth was born on 15 February 1934, ...
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