Niklaus E. Wirth, Swiss computer scientist, educator. award, 1983; award 1984). Member Association for Computing Machinery (Association for Computing Machinery) (Master of Arts Turing award 1984).
Background
Wirth, Niklaus E. was born in 1934 in. Student Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich), Laval U. (Canada), University California-Berkeley. Professor U. Zurich, 1967-1976, Swiss Federal Institute Technology, Zurich, since 1968.
Recipient Emanuel Piore award, 1983.
Education
Degree of Electronics Engineer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, 1959. Master of Science, Laval University of Canberra, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1963.
Degree (honorary), University York, England, 1978. Degree (honorary), Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1978. Degree (honorary), Laval University of Canberra, 1987.
Degree (honorary), Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, 1993. Degree (honorary), University Novosibirsk, Russia, 1996. Degree (honorary), Open University, England, 1997.
Degree (honorary), University Pretoria, South Africa, 1998. Degree (honorary), Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 1999.
Career
Assistant professor, computer science department Stanford University, 1963—1967, University Zürich. Professor informatics Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, 1968—1999, chairman, division computer science, 1982—1984, 1988—1990, head Institute Computer Systems, 1990—1994. With Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto.
Membership
Member of Swiss Academy Engineering, United States Academy Engineering (foreign associate), Swiss Academy Technology Sciences, Association Computing Machinery (A.M. Turing award 1984, award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education, SIGSOFT, Outstanding Research award in Software Engineering 1999).