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Ole-Johan Dahl

Computer Science

Ole-Johan Dahl was a Norwegian computer scientist and professor of computer science at the University of Oslo, considered along with Kristen Nygaard to be one of the fathers of the Simula programming language and object-oriented programming. In 2001, Dahl and Nygaard won the ACM Turing Award.

Facts
Birth Year
1931 1
Death Date
2002-06-29 2
Death Year
2002 1
Death Place
Asker, Norway 1
Nationality
Norway 1
Notable Work
Simula programming language and object-oriented programming 2
Birthplace
Mandal, Norway 2
Field
Field (category)
Computer Science 1
Field (category)
Engineering 1
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1. Ole-Johan Dahl (Wikidata)
  • P570 (date of death): year
    +2002-06-29T00:00:00Z
  • P27 (country of citizenship): Norway
    Q20
  • P20 (place of death): Asker, Norway
    Q56869
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2. Ole-Johan Dahl, Wikipedia
  • Career, opening sentence
    Dahl was born in Mandal, Norway.
  • Infobox, Died
    29 June 2002
  • Career, Simula paragraph
    With Kristen Nygaard, he produced the initial ideas for object-oriented (OO) programming in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center
  • Works In: Computer Science, Lead sentence
    Ole-Johan Dahl (12 October 1931-29 June 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist.
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