Kristen Nygaard(1926–2002)
Computer ScienceKristen 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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Education
University of Oslo
Fagerborg Upper Secondary School
Career Timeline
Norwegian Defence Research Establishment1948–1960
Norwegian Computing Center1960–1975
Aarhus University1975–1976
University of Oslo1976–1996
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AS
Adi Shamir
Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2024)
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Andrew Barto
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RS
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Yoshua Bengio
Princess of Asturias Award (2022)
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