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Peter Naur Wins 2005 Turing Award

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the celebrating-people-who-deserve-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Peter Naur the winner of the 2005 A.M. Turing Award. The award is for Dr. Naur's fundamental contributions to programming language design and the definition of Algol 60, to compiler design, and to the art and practice of computer programming. The Turing Award is considered to be the Nobel Prize of computing, and a well-deserved recognition of Dr. Naur's pioneering contributions to the field."

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  1. Re:The Algols were good by zippthorne · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    In what year did the concept of "risk management" as an organisational paradigm/department become popular?

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