Kristen Nygaard
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 22 years ago |
Date of birth | August 27,1926 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Born | Oslo |
Norway | |
Date of died | August 10,2002 |
Died | Oslo |
Norway | |
Spouse | Johanna Nygaard |
Books | Object-oriented Programming in the BETA Programming Language |
Job | Politician |
Mathematician | |
Computer scientist | |
Awards | Turing Award |
Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility | |
IEEE John von Neumann Medal | |
Nationality | Norwegian |
Known for | Object-oriented programming |
Founded | Norwegian Operational Research Society |
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ID | 610897 |
Kristen Nygaard Life story
Kristen Nygaard was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer, and politician. Internationally, Nygaard is acknowledged as the co-inventor of object-oriented programming and the programming language Simula with Ole-Johan Dahl in the 1960s. Nygaard and Dahl received the 2001 A. M.