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  1. en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki › Niklaus_WirthNiklaus Wirth - Wikipedia

    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.

  2. www.nytimes.com › 2024/02/22 › technologyNiklaus Wirth, Visionary Software Architect, Dies at 89

    Feb 22, 2024 · Dr. Wirth died of heart failure on Jan. 1 at his home in Zurich, his daughter Tina Wirth said. He was 89.

  3. www.computerhistory.org › blog › in-memoriam-niklaus-wirth-1934-2024In Memoriam: Niklaus Wirth (1934–2024) - CHM

    Jan 5, 2024 · 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) in 1959, an MSc from Laval University (1960), and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley (1963).

  4. ethz.ch › eth-news › newsComputer pioneer Niklaus Wirth has died - ETH Zürich

    Apr 1, 2024 · Computer pioneer Niklaus Wirth died on 1 January 2024, just weeks before his 90th birthday. The long-serving ETH Professor of Computer Science achieved world fame by developing the Pascal programming language in the 1970s.

  5. amturing.acm.org › award_winners › wirth_1025774Niklaus E. Wirth - A.M. Turing Award Laureate

    Niklaus E. Wirth. Switzerland – 1984. CITATION. For developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL. PASCAL has become pedagogically significant and has provided a foundation for future computer language, systems, and architectural research. Short Annotated. Bibliography. ACM Turing Award. Lecture. Research

  6. www.britannica.com › biography › Niklaus-Emil-WirthNiklaus Emil Wirth | Inventor of Pascal, Algol-W, & Oberon

    Niklaus Emil Wirth (born February 15, 1934, Winterthur, Switzerland—died January 1, 2024, Zürich) was a Swiss computer scientist and winner of the 1984 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science, for “developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL .”.

  7. people.inf.ethz.ch › wirthNiklaus Wirth

    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. He was Assistant Professor of Computer ...

  8. www.computerhistory.org › profile › niklaus-wirthNiklaus Wirth - CHM

    Jun 26, 2024 · 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).

  9. cacm.acm.org › news › in-memoriam-niklaus-wirthIn Memoriam: Niklaus Wirth – Communications of the ACM

    Computing pioneer Niklaus Wirth died on January 1, 2024, just 45 days short of his 90th birthday. Wirth was born in Switzerland in 1934. He received his B.S. from ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich in 1959, and his M.Sc. degree from Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada in 1960.

  10. inf.ethz.ch › news-and-events › spotlights"I always saw myself as an engineer" - Part 1/3 - ETH Z

    Mar 12, 2021 · 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.