Kristen Nygaard
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.
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- Born in
- Oslo
- Educated at
- University of OsloFagerborg Upper Secondary School
- Awards
- 🏆 Turing Award🏆 IEEE John von Neumann Medal🏆 Commander of the Order of St. Olav🏆 Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility🏆 Rosing Honorary Award
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1926
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