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Kristen Nygaard Dead

Kristen Nygaard
KindPerson
Born1926
Died2002
StatusDead
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Co-created Simula and insisted programming languages serve workers, not just machines.

Created Simula

Co-created Simula — operations-research background, built it for simulation work at the Norwegian Computing Center.\n\nTuring Award 2001 (with Dahl); also a labor-movement figure who used computing theory to advocate for workers.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen_Nygaard