Kristen Nygaard | |
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 Kristen Nygaard at the Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages (SBLP '97) | |
| Born | 27 August 1926 Oslo, Norway |
| Died | 10 August 2002 (aged 75) Oslo,[1] Norway |
| Citizenship | Norway |
| Education | M.Sc., University of Oslo (1956) |
| Known for | Object-oriented programming Simula |
| Awards | Turing Award (2001) IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2002) Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Norwegian Defense Research Establishment Norwegian Operational Research Society Norwegian Computing Center Aarhus University University of Oslo Simula Research Laboratory |
| Thesis | Theoretical Aspects of Monte Carlo methods (1956) |
Kristen Nygaard (27 August 1926 – 10 August 2002) 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. M. Turing Award for their contribution to computer science.
- ^ "Nygaard biography". history.mcs.st. 26 January 2014. Archived from the original on 26 January 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2024.