Niklaus Wirth

1934 -

country of citizenship: Switzerland

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: ETH Zurich, Laval University, University of California, Berkeley

occupation: computer scientist, engineer, programmer, university teacher

award received: Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Turing Award, IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, Computer History Museum fellow, Computer Pioneer Award, Programming Languages Achievement Award, Marcel Benoist Prize, ACM Fellow, honorary doctorate of the Masaryk University, honorary doctorate at the Laval University

influenced by: Edsger W. Dijkstra

official website: people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth

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. In 1984, he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, "for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages". Source: Wikipedia (en)