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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.
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Born 27 August 1926 · Died 10 August 2002 · Q92744
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The Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets (AITO) established an annual prize in the name of Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard to honor their pioneering work on object-orientation
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Died 2002-08-10.
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Won IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2002).
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Awarded Turing Award (2001).
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Awarded Commander of the Order of St. Olav (2000).
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Awarded Rosing Honorary Award (1999).
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And Dahl became the first people to receive the then new Rosing Prize, awarded by the Norwegian Data Association for exceptional professional achievements
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Aiming at enriching object-oriented languages and system development methods by new basic concepts that make it possible to describe the relation between layered and/or distributed programs and the computer hardware and
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And 1997, Nygaard was the coordinator of the efforts to establish The European Anti-Maastricht Movement (TEAM), a cooperative network between national organizations opposing the Economic and Monetary Union of the Europea
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And was later the chair of the organization's strategy committee and a member of its council
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When the EEC ratified the Maastricht Treaty and became the European Union the organization changed its name to reflect this
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Awarded Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility (1990).
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And 1985, Nygaard was chairman of the Informatics Committee of the University of Oslo, and active in the design of the university's plan for developing research, education and computing and communication facilities at al
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Was engaged in developing and (since 1986) implementing the general object-oriented programming language BETA, together with Bent Bruun Kristensen, Ole Lehrmann Madsen, and Birger Møller-Pedersen
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Was hired by the Norwegian Computing Center (NCC), responsible for building up the NCC as a research institute in the 1960s, becoming its Director of Research in 1962
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Kristen Nygaard married Johanna Nygaard in 1951.
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Studied at University of Oslo (1945–1948).
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Studied at Fagerborg Upper Secondary School (1945).
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Born 1926-08-27.
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