Niklaus Wirth

Niklaus E. Wirth
Born	(1934-02-15) 15 February 1934 (age 83) Winterthur, Switzerland
Citizenship	Switzerland
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	ETH Zurich Stanford University University of Zurich Xerox PARC
Alma mater	ETH Zurich (B.S., 1959) Université Laval (M.S., 1959) University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1963)
Thesis	[1963 A Generalization of Algol]
Doctoral advisor	Harry Huskey
Doctoral students	William McKeeman, Martin Odersky
Known for	Algol W, Euler, Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, Oberon, Oberon-2, Oberon-07, Oberon System
Notable awards	Turing Award (1984) SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award Fellow of the Computer History Museum (2004) Marcel Benoist Prize (1989)

Niklaus Emil Wirth (born 15 February 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.

Wirth was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1934. In 1959 he earned a degree in Electronics Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich). In 1960 he earned an M.Sc. from Université Laval, Canada. Then in 1963 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from the University of California, Berkeley, supervised by the computer designer pioneer Harry Huskey.

From 1963 to 1967 he served as assistant professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and again at the University of Zurich. Then in 1968 he became Professor of Informatics at ETH Zürich, taking two one-year sabbaticals at Xerox PARC in California (1976–1977 and 1984–1985). Wirth retired in 1999.

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