Computer programming pioneer Kristen Nygaard, 75
Posted: Monday, August 12th, 2002 1:48 amKristen Nygaard, a pioneer in developing programming language for computers who helped lay the basis for the Internet, has died of a heart attack, aged 75.
Nygaard died yesterday in Norway’s capital, Oslo, according to media reports.
The University of Oslo professor was acclaimed internationally for his work in developing the programming language Simula that laid the basis for MS-DOS and the Internet.
He and his colleague Ole-Johan Dahl, who died in June, were presented the 2001 AM Turing Award and other prizes for their role in the invention of object-oriented programming at the Norwegian Computing Centre from 1961 to 1967. … Read full obituary
