For the Danish footballer, see Kristen Nygaard (footballer).
Kristen Nygaard
Kristen Nygaard at the Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages (SBLP '97)
Born
(1926-08-27)27 August 1926
Oslo, Norway
Died
10 August 2002(2002-08-10) (aged 75)
Oslo,[1] Norway
Citizenship
Norway
Education
M.Sc., University of Oslo (1956)
Known for
Object-oriented programming Simula
Awards
Turing Award (2001) IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2002) Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility
Scientific career
Fields
Computer science
Institutions
Norwegian Defense Research Establishment Norwegian Operational Research Society Norwegian Computing Center Aarhus University University of Oslo Simula Research Laboratory
Thesis
Theoretical Aspects of Monte Carlo methods (1956)
Kristen Nygaard (27 August 1926 – 10 August 2002) 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. Turing Award for their contribution to computer science.
^"Nygaard biography". history.mcs.st. 26 January 2014. Archived from the original on 26 January 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
KristenNygaard (27 August 1926 – 10 August 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer, and politician. Internationally, Nygaard...
1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo, by Ole-Johan Dahl and KristenNygaard. Syntactically, it is an approximate superset of ALGOL 60,: 1.3.1 ...
This time, the first leg ended 6–0 with goals from Hugo Hovenkamp, KristenNygaard, Jan Peters (2), Kurt Welzl and Pier Tol. The second leg, played in...
included in the Dutch squad for Euro 1980. Meanwhile, Danish forward KristenNygaard spent ten years at AZ, scoring 104 goals in 363 matches between 1972...
brought the Internet to Europe. Computer scientists Ole-Johan Dahl and KristenNygaard are considered to be the fathers of the tremendously influential Simula...
the fundamentals of object-oriented programming from its inventor, KristenNygaard, who frequently visited Aarhus. In 1979, he received his PhD in computer...
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on October 12, 2021. Retrieved March 4, 2024. Ole Lehrman Madsen. "KristenNygaard - A.M. Turing Award Laureate". Association for Computing Machinery...
simulation List of computer simulation software Dahl, Ole-Johan, and KristenNygaard. "SIMULA: an ALGOL-based simulation language." Communications of the...
Scientific Computing (1948–1962)". and a biography of KristenNygaard, The Many Dimensions of KristenNygaard, Creator of Object-Oriented Programming and the...
SIMSCRIPT ... was implemented asa Fortran preprocessor on the IBM 7090 KristenNygaard (1978). "The Development of the SIMULA Languages" (PDF). The development...
science. 1960s The Simula language was developed by Ole-Johan Dahl and KristenNygaard; it is widely considered to be the first example of an object-oriented...
academic Marius Nygaard, and she is also a grandniece of William Martin Nygaard and a second cousin of William Nygaard and KristenNygaard. In January 1956...
(1893–1972) a Danish cyclist, competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics KristenNygaard (born 1949 in Sunds) a former footballer, 363 club caps and 36 for...
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