List of Famous people born in Winterthur, Switzerland
Niklaus Wirth
First Name Niklaus
Last Name Wirth
Born on February 15, 1934
(age 90)
Born in Switzerland, canton of Zürich
Niklaus Emil Wirth 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 computer languages.
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