Peter Naur was a Danish computer science pioneer and Turing award winner.
11 Facts About Peter Naur
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From 1969 to 1998, Peter Naur was a professor of computer science at University of Copenhagen.
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Peter Naur 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 languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.
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Peter Naur disliked the term computer science and suggested it be called datalogy or data science.
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Peter Naur early recognized the particular educational challenges presented by computer science.
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Peter Naur's innovations have shown their quality and vitality at other universities.
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Peter Naur has attacked both certain strands of philosophy and psychology from this viewpoint.
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Peter Naur was developing a theory of human thinking which he called "Synapse-State Theory of Mental Life".
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Peter Naur won the 2005 Association for Computing Machinery AM Turing Award for his work on defining the programming language ALGOL 60.
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Peter Naur is the only Dane to have won the Turing Award.
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Peter Naur published a large number of articles and chapters on astronomy, computer science, issues in society, classical music, psychology, and education.