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Kristen Nygaard
August 27, 1926 – August 10, 2002
Norwegian computer scientist and mathematician
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Kristen 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. M. Turing Award for their contribution to computer science.
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- Birthday · August 27
- Anniversary · August 10
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