Kristen Nygaard was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer and politician. He is internationally acknowledged, along with Ole-Johan Dahl, as the co-inventor of object-oriented programming and the Simula programming language in the 1960s, and he and Dahl received the 2001 ACM Turing Award for their contribution to computer science.
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27 August 1926
Infobox, Died
10 August 2002
Object-oriented programming section
With Ole-Johan Dahl, he developed the initial ideas for object-oriented programming (OOP) in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center
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Kristen Nygaard (27 August 1926-10 August 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer, and politician.
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