Peter Wegner
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Peter A.[4] Wegner (August 20, 1932 – July 27, 2017) was a professor of computer science at Brown University from 1969 to 1999. He made significant contributions to both the theory of object-oriented programming during the 1980s and to the relevance of the Church–Turing thesis for empirical aspects of computer science during the 1990s and present. In 2016, Wegner wrote a brief autobiography for Conduit, the annual Brown University Computer Science department magazine.[1][5][6][7][8][9]
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Peter Wegner | |
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Born | (1932-08-20)August 20, 1932[1] |
Died | July 27, 2017(2017-07-27) (aged 84)[1][2] |
Alma mater | University of London[3] |
Awards | Fellow of the ACM (1995) Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class (1999) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | University of London University of Cambridge Brown University |
Thesis | Programming Languages, Information Structures And Machine Organization (1968) |
Doctoral advisor | Maurice Wilkes[3] |
Doctoral students | William Cook[3] |
Website | www |
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