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Computer Science Pioneer Niklaus Wirth Passes Away
Wirth was the recipient of the 1984 ACM A.M. Turing Award, the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, and the Marcel Benoist Prize, among other honors.
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ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate Niklaus Emil Wirth passed away Jan. 1 at age 89.
Known for his pioneering research in programming languages and algorithms, Wirth was the recipient of the 1984 ACM A.M. Turing Award, the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, and the Marcel Benoist Prize, among other honors.
The chief designer of several programming languages, most notably Pascal, he also popularized "Wirth's law," which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
From iTWire (01/04/24) David M. Williams
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