Peter Wegner
| Peter Wegner | |
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| Born | 1932 (age 84–85) Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Computer science |
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University of London University of Cambridge Brown University |
| Alma mater | University of London |
| Thesis | Programming Languages, Information Structures And Machine Organization (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | Maurice Wilkes |
| Doctoral students | Daniel Berry Maylun Buck-Lew William Cook Kenneth Magel Clement McGowan |
| Notable awards | Fellow of the ACM, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art |
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Peter Wegner (born in 1932) is an American computer scientist who has made significant contributions to both the theory of object-oriented programming during the 1980s and to the relevance of Church-Turing thesis for empirical aspects of computer science during the 1990s and present. In 2016, Wegner wrote this brief autobiography for Conduit, the annual Brown CS magazine.
Wegner was educated at the University of London where he was awarded a PhD in 1968 for work supervised by Maurice Wilkes.
The seminal work for his previous occupation is On Understanding Types which was co-authored with Luca Cardelli. For his latter undertaking, he has co-authored several papers and co-edited a book Interactive Computation: the New Paradigm which was published in 2006.
Wegner was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1995. In 1999, he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class (“Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft u. Kunst I. Klasse”) but was hit by a bus and sustained serious brain injuries when on a trip to London to receive his award. He recovered after a lengthy coma.
He is the former editor-in-chief of ACM Computing Surveys and of The Brown Faculty Bulletin and is currently an emeritus professor at Brown University.
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