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Wirth, Niklaus

LC control no.n 50013767
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingWirth, Niklaus
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Variant(s)Wirth, Nicklaus
Wirth, N. (Niklaus)
Associated countrySwitzerland
Associated placeZurich (Switzerland) Berkeley (Calif.) Stanford (Calif.) Québec (Québec)
Birth date1934-02-15
Place of birthWinterthur (Switzerland)
Field of activityProgramming languages (Electronic computers) Compiling (Electronic computers) Computer programming Modula-2 (Computer program language) Pascal (Computer program language) ALGOL (Computer program language)
AffiliationEidgenössische Technische Hochschule
Profession or occupationCollege teachers
Found inHis Soviet cybernetics technology, 1967.
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1934; Dr.)
A programming language for the 360 Computers, 1967: cover (Nicklaus Wirth, Computer Science Dept., Stanford University)
Algorithms + data structures = programs, 1976: title page (Niklaus Wirth, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland) cover (Nicklaus Wirth) page xvi (N. Wirth) page 3 of jacket (Niklaus Wirth; professor of computer science at the Federal Institute of Technology (E.T.H.), Zurich, Switzerland; designer of various programming languages and compilers; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley; M.Sc., Universite Laval [Quebec]; B.Sc., Federal Institute of Technology)
OCLC, viewed July 6, 2015 (access points: Wirth, Niklaus; Wirth, Niklaus, 1934- ; Wirth, Nicklaus; Wirth, Niklaus Emil; usage: Niklaus Wirth; Niklaus Emil Wirth [dissertation])
Wikipedia, viewed July 6, 2015: (Niklaus Wirth; middle name, Emil; born February 15, 1934, in Winterthur, Switzerland; assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University and at University of Zurich, 1963-1967; professor of informatics, ETH Zürich, 1968-1999; took two one-year sabbaticals at Xerox PARC in California, 1976-77 and 1984-85; chief designer of programming languages Euler, Algol W, Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, Oberon, Oberon-2, and Oberon-07; designed simple programming language PL/0 to illustrate compiler design)
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The programming language Oberon, 1990: caption (N. Wirth)
Associated languageeng ger
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