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Peter Naur
Sign in to saveDanish computer scientist (1928–2016) and Turing Award winner (2005); author of 'Programming as Theory Building' (1985); co-editor of the 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference report
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Peter Naur appears in Vinony's Turing Award collection — one of 79 entries.
Within Vinony's link graph, Peter Naur is referenced by 199 other articles, and connects out to Burroughs large systems, programming language and ALGOL 68.
It is catalogued under topics including 1928 births, 2016 deaths and 20th-century Danish astronomers.
Its subject is documented across 43 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1928
- Died
- 2016
- Works
- 19
Top works
- Knowing and the Mystique of Logic and Rules
- Pluralism in Software Engineering
- Antiphilosophical dictionary
- Software engineering
- A Manual of Gier Algol 4.
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 16
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 87,254x
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,789x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,937x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,478x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,129x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1928-10-25 ) 25 October 1928, Frederiksberg , Denmark
- Died
- 3 January 2016 (2016-01-03) (aged 87), Herlev , Denmark
- Education
- University of Copenhagen ( BS , MS , PhD )
- Known for
- ALGOL , Backus–Naur form
- Spouse
- Christiane Floyd
- Awards
- Computer Pioneer Award (1986), Turing Award (2005)
- Fields
- Computer science , informatics
- Institutions
- Regnecentralen , Niels Bohr Institute , Technical University of Denmark , University of Copenhagen
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- date of birth
- 1928-10-25
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- 5
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- 2016-01-03
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Encyclopedic overview
Peter Naur (25 October 1928 – 3 January 2016) was a Danish computer science pioneer and 2005 Turing Award winner. He is best remembered as a contributor, with John Backus, to the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation used in describing the syntax for most programming languages. He also contributed to creating the language ALGOL 60.
Biography
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