Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus E. Wirth Born (1934-02-15) February 15, 1934 (age 81) Winterthur, Switzerland Citizenship Switzerland Fields Computer Science Institutions ETH Zurich, Stanford University, University of Zurich Xerox PARC Alma mater ETH Zurich (B.S., 1959) Université Laval (M.S., 1959) University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1963) Known for Algol W, Euler, Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, Oberon, Oberon-2, Oberon-07, Oberon System Notable awards Turing Award (1984) SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award Fellow of the Computer History Museum (2004) Marcel Benoist Prize (1989) Niklaus Emil Wirth (born February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.