Niklaus E. Wirth

* February 15, 1934, Winterthur, Switzerland
✝ January 1, 2024



ACM A.M. Turing Award - 1984

For developing a sequence of innovative computer languages: EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL. The latter has become pedagogically significant and has provided a foundation for future computer language, systems, and architectural research.