Kristen Nygaard - Kristen Nygaard Kristen Nygaard (1926-2002), Norwegian mathematician, computer programming language pioneer and politician, was born on August 27, 1926, in Oslo, and died on Saturday August 10, 2002, after suffering a heart attack. Internationally he is acknowledged as the co-inventor of object-oriented programming and the programming language Simula with Ole-Johan Dahl in the 1960s. The computer systems that form the foundation of the modern information society are among the most complex things humans have created. Through his ground-breaking research Nygaard made it possible to manage that complexity. Nygaard got his master's degree in mathematics at the University of Oslo in 1956. His thesis on abstract probability theory was entitled "Theoretical Aspects of Monte Carlo Methods". Nygaard worked full time at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment from.
IEEE John von Neumann Medal - E. Knuth 1996 Carver A. Mead 1997 Maurice V. Wilkes 1998 Ivan Edward Sutherland 1999 Douglas C. Engelbart 2000 John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson 2001 Butler W. Lampson 2002 Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard.
August 27 - of the United States of America. (+ 1891) 1858 - Giuseppe Peano, mathematician. (+ 1932) 1871 - Theodore Dreiser, author (+ 1945). 1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, film producer (+ 1974). 1890 - Man Ray, photographer, artist (+ 1976). 1899 - C.S. Forester, author (+ 1966). 1904 - Norah Lofts, author. 1906 - Ed Gein, serial killer (+ 1984) 1908 - Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the United States (+ 1973). 1908 - Don Bradman, cricketer. (+ 2001) 1909 - Lester Young, jazz musician (+ 1959). 1910 - Mother Teresa, missionary, humanitarian (+ 1997) 1916 - Martha Raye, actress (+ 1994). 1926 - Kristen Nygaard. (+ 2002 1928 - Mangosuthu Buthelezi (Chief Minister of Kwazulu-natal Province, South Africa). 1929 - Ira Levin, author. 1932 - Antonia Fraser, author. 1935 - Frank Yablans,.
August 10 - relocated by in the United States during World War II. 1990 - The Magellan space probe reaches Venus. 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain agreement for his testimony. Births 1397 - Albert II of Habsburg, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1821 - Jay Cooke, financier (+ 1905) 1874 - Herbert Hoover, President of the United States (+ 1964) 1898 - Jack Haley, actor (+ 1979) 1900 - Wolfgang Pauli, physicist (+ 1958) 1902 - Norma Shearer, actress (+ 1983) 1902 - Curt Siodmak, science fiction author (+ 2000) 1912 - Jorge Amado, novelist 1923 - Rhonda Fleming, actress 1928 - Jimmy Dean, country and western singer 1940 - Bobby Hatfield, singer, the Righteous Brothers.
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Turing Award - (CTSS and Multics) 1991 Robin Milner (LCF, ML, CCS) 1992 Butler W. Lampson (distributed, personal computing environments) 1993 Juris Hartmanis and Richard E. Stearns (computational complexity theory) 1994 Edward Feigenbaum and Raj Reddy (large scale artificial intelligence systems) 1995 Manuel Blum (computational complexity theory, its application to cryptography and program checking) 1996 Amir Pnueli (temporal logic, program and systems verification) 1997 Douglas Engelbart (interactive computing) 1998 James Gray (database and transaction processing) 1999 Frederick P. Brooks, Jr (computer architecture, operating systems, software engineering) 2000 Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (theory of computation incl. pseudorandom number generation, cryptography, and communication complexity) 2001 Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard (object oriented programming) 2002 Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard M. Adleman (public key cryptography) Links http://www.acm.org/awards/taward.html.
Simula - many of the features of object oriented languages today. Simula was developed in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Centre in Oslo, primarily by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. It resembles Algol60 in a lot of ways and was probably based on it. It adds features that go almost to the modern idea of classes and objects. It also adds coroutines. Simula is still used a little for serious work as of 2003, but it is probably fair to say its historical influence is more important than actual work being done with it. A successor to Simula named BETA was created but is used even less. See Also Object-oriented programming BETA programming language Simulation language.
Ole-Johan Dahl - considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along with Kristen Nygaard. Some early papers Multiple index countings on the Ferranti Mercury computer / by O.-J. Dahl. Oslo: Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, 1957. Programmer's handbook for the Ferranti Mercury Computer, Frederic at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment / By O.-J. Dahl, and Jan V. Garwick. - 2nd ed., Kjeller : Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, 1958. Automatisk kodning : et prosjekt ved Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt. Simscript implementation / by Vic Bell and Ole-Johan Dahl. Oslo : Norwegian Computing Center, 1963. Basic concepts of SIMULA : an ALGOL based simulation language / by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. Oslo: Norsk regnesentral, [1965?]. SIMULA : a language for programming and description of discrete event systems : introduction and user's manual. Oslo.
Norwegian Computing Centre - public service organisations in the national as well as the international market. The Simula programming language was designed and built by Professor emeritus Ole-Johan Dahl and Professor emeritus Kristen Nygaard at the Norwegian Computing Centre (NCC) in Oslo between 1962 and 1967. Both received the ACM Turing Award in 2001 and the 2002 IEEE John von Neumann Medal for the introduction of the concepts underlying object-oriented programming through the design and implementation of Simula 67..
List of computer scientists - William Kahan Bob Kahn Avinash Kak Alan Kay - Dynabook, Smalltalk Richard Karp - NP completeness Brian Kernighan - Unix Donald Knuth - The Art of Computer Programming, TeX, Literate programming Andrew Koenig - C++ Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov Robert Kowalski Thomas E. Kurtz - BASIC L Monica Lam Leslie Lamport - Algorithms for concurrency Butler W. Lampson Joshua Lederberg Douglas Lenat - Artificial intellegence Hector Levesque Michael Ley - DBLP J.C.R. Licklider David Liddle Barbara Liskov - Programming languages Ada Lovelace - first programmer Nancy Lynch M Zohar Manna - Fuzzy logic John McCarthy - Lisp, AI Douglas McIlroy - pipes Jose Meseguer Bertrand Meyer - Eiffel Robin Milner - ML Marvin Minsky - AI, perceptrons, Society of Mind Jim Mitchell J Strother Moore - string searching and ACL2 theorem prover.
List of programmers - heavily influenced COBOL) I Miguel de Icaza - GNOME project leader J Bo Jangeborg - ZX Spectrum games Steven C. Johnson - yacc Lynne Jolitz - 386BSD William Jolitz - 386BSD Bill Joy - BSD, vi; founded Sun Microsystems K Mitch Kapor - Lotus 1-2-3, founded Lotus Development Corporation Stan Kelly-Bootle - Manchester Mark I, The Devil's DP Dictionary Brian Kernighan - AWK (co-author) Donald E. Knuth - TeX, CWeb, The Art of Computer Programming L Michael Lesk - Lex Ada Lovelace - First programmer (of Babbage Machines) M Yukihiro Matsumoto - Ruby John McCarthy - Lisp Douglas McIlroy - Unix tools Kirk McKusick - BSD Bertrand Meyer - Eiffel, Object-oriented Software Construction, Design by contract Jeff Minter - Psychedelic, and often llama-related video games Dave Moon - MacLisp, ZetaLisp Chuck.
List of mathematicians - 1941) Adrien-Marie Legendre (France, 1752 - 1833) Derrick Henry Lehmer (USA, 1905 - 1991) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Germany, 1646 - 1716) Solomon Lefschetz (France, USA, 1884 - 1972) Jean Leray Guillaume François Antoine Marquis de L'Hospital (France, 1661 - 1704) Sophus Lie (Norway, 1842 - 1899) Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann (Germany, 1852 - 1939) Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik (Russia, 1915 - 1972) Jacques-Louis Lions (France, 1928 - 2001) Joseph Liouville (France, 1809 - 1882) Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Russia, 1792 - 1856) François-Édouard-Anatole Lucas (France, 1842 - 1891) Lukasiewicz, Jan (Poland, 1878-1956) Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, (Russia, 1857 - 1918) M Sheila Scott Macintyre (Scotland, 1910-1960) Saunders MacLane (USA, 1909 - ) Colin Maclaurin (Scotland, 1698 - 1746) Benoit B. Mandelbrot (Poland, France, USA, 1924 - ) Jozef Marcinkiewicz(Poland ) Edward Marczewski (Poland,.
List of Norwegians - Gerhard Armauer Hansen, discoverer of the bacteria causing leprosy Trygve Haavelmo, economist Anne Stine Ingstad, archeologist Sophus Lie, mathematician Kristen Nygaard, computer scientist Lars Onsager, physical chemist Atle Selberg, mathematician Harald Sverdrup, oceanographer and meteorologist Otto Sverdrup, oceanographer Ludwig Sylow, mathematician Johan Vaaler, inventor Caspar Wessel, mathematician Ivar Aasen, linguist Sport Ole Einar Bjørndalen, biathlete Bjørn Dæhlie, cross-country skier Stein Eriksen, alpine skier Tore André Flo, football player Trine Hattestad, javelin thrower Sonja Henie, figure skater and movie star Terje Håkonsen, snowboarder Lasse Kjus, alpine skier Johann Olav Koss, speed skater Ingrid Kristiansen, long distance runner Sondre Norheim, pioneer skier John Arne Riise, football player Petter Solberg, rally driver Ole Gunnar Solskjær, football player Grete Waitz, long distance runner Bjørn Wirkola, ski jumper Kjetil André Aamodt, alpine skier Other Jon Johansen,.
List of mathematical topics (M-O) - exclusive -- Myhill-Nerode Theorem N N-body problem -- N-Mahlo cardinal -- N-sequence -- Naive Bayesian classification -- Naive set theory -- Napier -- Napier, John -- Napier's bones -- Nash embedding theorem -- Nash equilibrium -- Nash, John Forbes -- Natarajan Saradha -- Natural deduction -- Natural logarithm -- Natural number -- Natural numbers -- Natural transformation -- Navier-Stokes equations -- NC -- Nearest neighbour relation -- Necessary and sufficient -- Necker cube -- Negabinary -- Negative and non-negative numbers -- Negative binomial distribution -- Negative number -- Negligible set -- Neper -- Nernst equation Talk:Nernst equation -- Net (mathematics) -- Network topology -- Neumann, John von -- Neural network -- Nevanlinna, Rolf -- NewPGen -- Newcomb's paradox -- Newton, Isaac -- Newton-Cotes formulas -- Newtonian physics -- Newton polynomial --.
List of people by name: Ny - - W - X - Y - Z Na - Nb - Nc - Nd - Ne - Nf - Ng - Nh - Ni - Nj - Nk - Nl - Nm - Nn - No - Np - Nq - Nr - Ns - Nt - Nu - Nv - Nw - Nx - Ny - Nz Nyby, Christian, (1913-1993), film and television director Nye, Bill, (born 1955), mechanical engineer Nye, Naomi Shihab, poet Nyerere, Julius, (died 1999), Tanzanian leader Nye, Robert, author Nygaard, Kristen, (1926-2002), SIMULA Nygaardsvold, Johan, (1935-1945), Norwegian Prime Minister Nyman, Michael, (born 1944), composer Nyro, Laura, (1947-1997), singer-songwriter.
Kristen Britain - Kristen Britain Kristen Britain is the author of Green Rider and First Rider's Call. She grew up in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, where she started her first novel - an undersea fantasy featuring herself and her friends - at the age of nine. She published her first book, a cartoon collection called Horses and Horsepeople, at the age of thirteen. After completing her degree in film production at Ithaca College in 1987 she made the logical (?!) leap from cinema to the National Park Service. Her many years as a park ranger enabled her to work in a variety of natural and historical settings, from 300 feet below the surface of the Earth to 13,000 feet above sea level on the Continental.
Jane Curtin - 1993, Curtin and Aykroyd were reuinited in Coneheads, a full length motion picture based on the popular SNL characters of the same name. From 1996 to 2001, Curtin costarred in the television sitcom, 3rd Rock from the Sun, with John Lithgow, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart and Joseph Gordon-Levitt..
June 21 - Klan. 1973 - In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test, which now governs obscenity in U.S. law. 2000 - Section 28 repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote. Births 356 BC - Alexander the Great 1731 - Martha Washington 1839 - Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (+ 1908) 1884 - Claude Auchinleck, British Field Marshal (+ 1981) 1887 - Norman L. Bowen, petrologist (+ 1956) 1891 - Pier Luigi Nervi, architect (+ 1979) 1903 - Al Hirschfield, cartoonist 1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher and playwright, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1964 (+ 1980) 1912 - Mary McCarthy, writer (+ 1989) 1919 - Gower Champion, dancer and choreographer (+ 1980) 1921 -.
Indigo Girls - Vega encouraged Epic Records to look for other women singer-songwriters; Epic signed the duo in 1988. Their first major-label release, also self-titled, included a new version of Land of Canaan, which was also on their 1985 EP and on Strange Fire. About this time Amy founded Daemon Records, which has signed Ellen James Society, Kristen Hall and James Hall, among others. The second album, Nomads Indians Saints, went gold, but was not as successful as their first. They followed it with the live Back on the Bus, Y'all. 1992's comeback album Rites of Passage was an enormous success, as was Swamp Ophelia in 1994. Albums Strange Fire (1987, independent 11-song version) Indigo Girls (1989) Strange Fire (1989, major-label 10-song version) Nomads*Indians*Saints (1990) Back on the Bus, Y'all (1991, live) Rites of.
Gerald F. Hardacre - September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on board United Airlines flight 175. He was survived by his wife. Judith, daughters, Colleen and Kristen and brother Larry, and sister-in-law Gretchen. [Information on family, other information.] [He was a wonderful man who loved his family very much and had a heart of gold. He would have done anything for anyone and we know that he did whatever he could on this flight to help everyone on this plane and avoid what these monsters did. ] See September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Casualties. External Links [url name of url].
