Niklaus E. Wirth
Award Recipient
Niklaus E. Wirth
ACM Fellows
Switzerland - 1994
citation
For developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL. PASCAL has become pedagogically significant and has provided a foundation for future computer language, systems, and architectural research.
ACM A. M. Turing Award
Switzerland - 1984
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For developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL. PASCAL has become pedagogically significant and has provided a foundation for future computer language, systems, and architectural research.
ACM Programming Systems and Languages Paper Award
Switzerland - 1978
citation
Toward a discipline of real-time programming, Communications of the ACM, August 1977