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Niklaus Emil Wirth, (born Feb. 15, 1934, Winterthur, Switz.), Swiss computer scientist and winner of the 1984 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for “developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL.”

Niklaus Wirth was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1934. He received the degree of electronics engineer from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (eth-Zurich) (1959), an MSC from Laval University (1960), and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley (1963).

NiklausWirth, Professor, retired. Address: Departement Informatik. ETH. CH-8092 Zürich. (Switzerland) NiklausWirth was born in February 1934 in Winterthur, Switzerland. He received the degree of Electronics Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurichin 1959, an M.Sc.

Niklaus Wirth grew up in Switzerland, and he spent most of his professional life at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich. After earning his first degree there in 1959, he left for graduate study in North America and earned his Ph.D. in 1963 from the University of California, Berkeley.

In 1984, Niklaus Wirth won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, including Pascal. After earning his first degree at ETH Zürich in Electronic Engineering in 1959, Niklaus Wirth left to complete his graduate studies in North America.

Niklaus Wirth was born in February 1934 in Winterthur, Switzerland. He received the degree of Electronics Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich in 1959, an M.Sc. from Laval University, Canada, in 1960, and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1963.

Turing Award winner, pioneer and father of Pascal: Prof. em. Niklaus Wirth has had a remarkable impact on the field of computer science. His contributions to programming languages go beyond the development of Pascal. However, Pascal marked the beginning of Wirth’s influence on programming languages.

Niklaus Emil Wirth (born 15 February 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist. He has 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 ...