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Peter Naur

Danish 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.

Born October 25th, 1928 in Frederiksberg.

Died January 3rd, 2016 at 87 years old in Herlev (disease). [ref]

Occupations
astronomer, computer scientist, programmer, university teacher
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