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Kristen Nygaard

Kristen Nygaard
Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and academic (d. 2002)

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.

27 August 1926

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