13 Facts About Maurice Nivat

Maurice Paul Nivat was a French computer scientist.

Maurice Nivat was a professor at the University Paris Diderot until 2001.

Maurice Nivat's parents were high-school teachers; his father taught languages while his mother taught mathematics.

Maurice Nivat was admitted to the Ecole normale superieure in 1956, but began working at the Blaise Pascal Institute of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, a newly established computing laboratory, in 1959.

Maurice Nivat returned to study mathematics in 1961 under the supervision of Marcel-Paul Schutzenberger.

In 1969, Maurice Nivat became a professor at Paris Diderot University and taught until 2002.

Maurice Nivat remained as professor emeritus until his death in 2017.

Maurice Nivat was involved in many endeavours in theoretical computer science in Europe: he was one of the founders of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science in 1972 and organized the first International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming conference in the same year at French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation in Paris.

Maurice Nivat was editor-in-chief of the journal for over 25 years.

Maurice Nivat was a member of the International Federation for Information Processing IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi, which specified, supports, and maintains the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.

Since 1983, Maurice Nivat was a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Maurice Nivat was an officer of both the Legion d'honneur and the Ordre national du Merite, and a commander of the Ordre des Palmes Academiques in France.

Maurice Nivat received honorary doctorates from the University of Bologna in 1997 and the University of Quebec at Montreal in 2006.