Peter Wegner | |
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| Born | August 20, 1932[2] |
| Died | July 27, 2017 (aged 84)[2][3] |
| Alma mater | University of London[1] |
| Awards | Fellow of the ACM (1995) Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class (1999) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of London University of Cambridge Brown University |
| Thesis | Programming Languages, Information Structures And Machine Organization (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | Maurice Wilkes[1] |
| Doctoral students | William Cook[1] |
| Website | www |
Peter A.[4] Wegner (August 20, 1932 – July 27, 2017) was a professor of computer science at Brown University from 1969 to 1999. He made significant contributions to both the theory of object-oriented programming during the 1980s and to the relevance of the Church–Turing thesis for empirical aspects of computer science during the 1990s and present. In 2016, Wegner wrote a brief autobiography for Conduit, the annual Brown University Computer Science department magazine.[2][5][6][7][8][9]
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- ^ In Memoriam: Peter Wegner, 1932-2017, 27 July 2017, retrieved 28 July 2017
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- ^ Peter Wegner at DBLP Bibliography Server
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- ^ Peter Wegner author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
- ^ Wegner, P. (1997). "Why interaction is more powerful than algorithms". Communications of the ACM. 40 (5): 80–91. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.57.9269. doi:10.1145/253769.253801. S2CID 11605796.
