Kristen Nygaard
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- Born
- 1926
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Artificial intelligence
- Fakta og meninger om Norge og EF
- The computer in the workplace
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 9,173x
- Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2019 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association
· 2019 · cited 7,458x
- Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2020 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association
· 2020 · cited 6,836x
- Mismatch repair deficiency predicts response of solid tumors to PD-1 blockade
· 2017 · cited 5,788x
- The AUDIT Alcohol Consumption Questions (AUDIT-C)<subtitle>An Effective Brief Screening Test for Problem Drinking</subtitle>
· 1998 · cited 5,420x
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Quotes
- “To program is to understand.”
- “The world language is English as spoken by foreigners.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1926-08-27 ) 27 August 1926, Oslo , Norway
- Died
- 10 August 2002 (2002-08-10) (aged 75), Oslo, Norway
- Citizenship
- Norway
- Education
- University of Oslo ( BS , MS )
- Known for
- Object-oriented programming , Simula
- Awards
- Turing Award (2001), IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2002), Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav , Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility
- Fields
- Computer science
- Institutions
- Norwegian Defense Research Establishment , Norwegian Operational Research Society, Norwegian Computing Center , Aarhus University , University of Oslo, Simula Research Laboratory
- Thesis
- Theoretical Aspects of Monte Carlo methods (1956)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Rodrigo
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Norway
- Place of birth
- Oslo
- Place of death
- Oslo
- Occupation
- politician
- Employer
- Aarhus University
- Political party
- Norwegian Labour Party
- Languages spoken
- Norwegian
- Notable work
- Simula
- Official website
- heim.ifi.uio.no/~kristen
- Image
- Kristen-Nygaard-SBLP-1997-head.png
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- date of birth
- 1926-08-27
- date of death
- 2002-08-10
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- member of
- Nei til EU
- Erdős number
- 5
- manner of death
- natural causes
- different from
- Kristen Nygaard
- Commons category
- Kristen Nygaard
- place of burial
- Vestre gravlund
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Kristen Nygaard (27 August 1926 – 10 August 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer, and politician. Internationally, Nygaard is acknowledged as the co-inventor of object-oriented programming and the programming language Simula with Ole-Johan Dahl in the 1960s. Nygaard and Dahl received the 2001 A. M. Turing Award for their contribution to computer science.
Early life and career
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