Kristen Nygaard
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Kristen Nygaard was a Norwegian mathematician, computer scientist, university teacher, and politician. Born in Oslo in 1926, he was educated at the University of Oslo and worked for the University of Oslo, the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, and Aarhus University. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the political parties Liberal Party and Norwegian Labour Party. He was also a member of Nei til EU.
Nygaard is noted for his work on Simula and authored works including Artificial intelligence, Fakta og meninger om Norge og EF, and The computer in the workplace. He received the Turing Award and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal. He died in Oslo in 2002 from a myocardial infarction and is buried at Vestre gravlund.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1926
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Artificial intelligence
- Fakta og meninger om Norge og EF
- The computer in the workplace
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1926-08-27 ) 27 August 1926, Oslo , Norway
- Died
- 10 August 2002 (2002-08-10) (aged 75), Oslo, Norway
- Citizenship
- Norway
- Education
- University of Oslo ( BS , MS )
- 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
- 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)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Rodrigo
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Norway
- Place of birth
- Oslo
- Place of death
- Oslo
- Occupation
- politician
- Employer
- Aarhus University
- Political party
- Norwegian Labour Party
- Languages spoken
- Norwegian
- Notable work
- Simula
- Official website
- heim.ifi.uio.no/~kristen
- Image
- Kristen-Nygaard-SBLP-1997-head.png
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- date of birth
- 1926-08-27
- date of death
- 2002-08-10
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- member of
- Nei til EU
- Erdős number
- 5
- manner of death
- natural causes
- different from
- Kristen Nygaard
- Commons category
- Kristen Nygaard
- place of burial
- Vestre gravlund
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Early life and career
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