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Niklaus Wirth (Niklaus Emil Wirth) was born on 15 February, 1934 in Winterthur, Switzerland, is a Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024). Discover Niklaus Wirth's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?

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Age 89 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 15 February, 1934
Birthday 15 February
Birthplace Winterthur, Switzerland
Date of death 1 January, 2024
Died Place Zürich, Switzerland
Nationality Switzerland

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1934

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.

Niklaus Emil Wirth was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, on 15 February 1934.

1959

He earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in electronic engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (ETH Zürich) in 1959.

1960

In 1960, he earned a Master of Science (M.Sc.) from Université Laval in Quebec.

1963

Then in 1963, he was awarded a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) from the University of California, Berkeley, supervised by computer design pioneer Harry Huskey.

From 1963 to 1967, Wirth served as assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University and again at the University of Zürich.

1965

Wirth was the chief designer of the programming languages Euler (1965), PL360 (1966), ALGOL W (1966), Pascal (1970), Modula (1975), Modula-2 (1978), Oberon (1987), Oberon-2 (1991), and Oberon-07 (2007).

1968

Then in 1968, he became a professor of informatics at ETH Zürich, taking two one-year sabbaticals at Xerox PARC in California (1976–1977 and 1984–1985).

1971

The April 1971 Communications of the ACM article "Program Development by Stepwise Refinement",

concerning the teaching of programming, is considered to be a classic text in software engineering.

The paper is considered to be the earliest work to formally outline the top-down method for designing programs.

The article was discussed by Fred Brooks in his influential book The Mythical Man-Month and was described as "seminal" in the ACM's brief biography of Wirth published in connection to his Turing Award.

1973

The 1973 textbook, Systematic Programming: An Introduction, was considered a quality source for mathematicians desiring to understand the nature of programming.

The cover flap, of the 1973 edition, stated the book "... is tailored to the needs of people who view a course on systematic construction of algorithms as part of their basic mathematical training, rather than to the immediate needs of those who wish to be able to occasionally encode a problem and hand it over to their computer for instant solution."

Regarded as a challenging text to work through, it was sought as imperative reading for those interested in numerical mathematics.

1974

In 1974, The Pascal User Manual and Report, The Pascal User Manual and Report, jointly written with Kathleen Jensen, served as the basis of many language implementation efforts in the 1970s (BSD Pascal ), and 1980s in the United States and across Europe.

1975

In 1975, he wrote the book Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, which gained wide recognition.

1983

He was also a major part of the design and implementation team for the operating systems Medos-2 (1983, for the Lilith workstation), and Oberon (1987, for the Ceres workstation), and for the Lola (1995) digital hardware design and simulation system.

1984

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

In 1984, Wirth received the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Turing Award for the development of these languages.

1986

Major revisions of this book with the new title Algorithms & Data Structures were published in 1986 and 2004.

The examples in the first edition were written in Pascal.

These were replaced in the later editions with examples written in Modula-2 and Oberon, respectively.

1992

In 1992, Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht published the full documentation of the Oberon operating system.

A second book, with Martin Reiser, was intended as a programming guide.

Wirth died on New Year's Day 2024, at age 89.

1994

In 1994, he was inducted as a Fellow of the ACM.

1995

In 1995, he popularized the adage now named Wirth's law.

In his 1995 paper "A Plea for Lean Software" he phrased it as "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."

and attributed it to Martin Reiser.

1999

He retired in 1999.

Wirth was involved with developing international standards in programming and informatics, as a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi, which specified, maintains, and supports the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.

2004

In 2004, he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for seminal work in programming languages and algorithms, including Euler, Algol-W, Pascal, Modula, and Oberon."