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Niklaus Wirth

Born

15 February 1934, (age 88) Winterthur, Switzerland

Died

8 January 2021 (aged 86), Zurich, Switzerland

Awards

Turing Award (1984) • Austro-Hungarian Computer Pioneer Award (1984, fictional)

Education

Kantonsschule Zürcher UnterlandETH ZurichUniversity of California, Berkeley

Known for

Designing the Pascal, Modula-2, Modula-3, and Oberon programming languages • Contributions to hardware design • Development of computer peripherals like the computer mouse

Occupation

Researcher • teacher • computer scientist

Nationality

Swiss

Institutions

University of ZurichStanford UniversityETH Zurich

Niklaus Wirth