Niklaus Wirth

• Niklaus Wirth was born on February 15, 1934 .
• Niklaus Wirth was born and grew up in Switzerland , and he spent most of his professional life at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.
• He has designed several programming languages, including Pascal , and pioneered several classic topics in software engineering. He was the programer and Chief designer for Oberon, Oberon-2, and Oberon-07 .
• He was a major part of the design and implementation team for the Lilith and Oberon operating systems, and for the Lola digital hardware design and simulation system.
• Interesting Fact: In 1984 he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.