Adriaan Van Wijngaarden
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 37 years ago |
Date of birth | November 2,1916 |
Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
Born | Rotterdam |
Netherlands | |
Died | Amstelveen |
Netherlands | |
Awards | IEEE Computer Society Awards - Computer Pioneer Award |
Wilhelm Exner Medal | |
Books | Abstracts of the Workshop on Convolutional Codes |
Date of died | February 7,1987 |
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ID | 3385578 |
Adriaan Van Wijngaarden Life story
Adriaan "Aad" van Wijngaarden was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Van Wijngaarden emphasized and promote the mathematical aspects of computing, first in numerical analysis, then in programming languages and finally in design principles of such languages.