Niklaus Wirth

Niklaus E. Wirth (born February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist.

Biography

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

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Winterthur - Switzerland - 1959 - Electronics Engineering - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Zurich - 1960 - Laval University - Canada - 1963 - Ph.D. - University of California, Berkeley - Harry Huskey

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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 in Zurich, taking a two year sabbatical at Xerox PARC in California.

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1963 - 1967 - Computer Science - Stanford University - University of Zurich - 1968 - Informatics - ETH - Zurich - Xerox PARC - California

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