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Computer pioneer Niklaus Wirth has died
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![Niklaus Wirth was a Turing Award winner, computer pioneer, inventor of influential programming languages. He is probably best known for the programming language he developed, Pascal. (Photo: ETH Zurich / Andreas Bucher)](/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2024/01/computer-pioneer-niklaus-wirth-has-died/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.735921837.jpg)
Computer pioneer Niklaus Wirth died on 1 January 2024, just weeks before his 90th birthday. The long-serving ETH Professor of Computer Science achieved world fame by developing the Pascal programming language in the 1970s. In 1984, he became the only German-speaking computer scientist yet to have received the Turing Award, which is regarded as the Nobel Prize for computer science.
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