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Niklaus Wirth
Born February 15, , Winterthur, Switzerland, early Promoter of good programming practices; developer of the programming languages Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon; recipient of the ACM Turing Award.
Education: undergraduate studies at ETH Zurich, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, ; diploma, Electronics Engineer ETH, ; MSc, Laval University, Quebec, Canada, ; PhD, electrical engineering, University of California, Berkeley,
Professional Experience: assistant professor of computer science, Stanford University, ; assistant professor of computer science, University of Zurich, ; professor of computer science, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, ; professor of computer science, ETH Zurich, present; sabbatical leaves, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, and ; head of Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, and ; head of Institute of Computer Systems, ETH Zurich, present.
Honors and Awards: ACM Programming Systems and Languages Paper Award for "Towards a Discipline