Peter Naur
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 9 years ago |
| Date of birth | October 25,1928 |
| Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
| Born | Frederiksberg |
| Denmark | |
| Date of died | January 3,2016 |
| Died | Herlev |
| Denmark | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Informatics | |
| Job | Professor |
| Astronomer | |
| Books | Concise Survey of Computer Methods |
| Computing: A Human Activity | |
| Knowing and the Mystique of Logic and Rules: Including True Statements in Knowing and Action * Computer Modelling of Human Knowing Activity * Coherent Description as the Core of Scholarship and Science | |
| Antiphilosophical Dictionary: Thinking, Speech, Science/scholarship : with a Summary | |
| An Anatomy of Human Mental Life: Psychology in Unideological Reconstruction Incorporating the Synapse-state Theory of Mental Life | |
| Nationality | Danish |
| Current partner | Christiane Floyd |
| Parents | Albert Naur |
| Known for | ALGOL |
| Awards | Turing Award |
| Education | Datalogisk Institut, Københavns Universitet (DIKU) |
| Copenhagen University | |
| Spouse | Christiane Floyd |
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| ID | 542304 |
Peter Naur Life story
Peter Naur was a Danish computer science pioneer and Turing award winner. He is best remembered as a contributor, with John Backus, to the Backus–Naur form notation used in describing the syntax for most programming languages. He also contributed to creating the language ALGOL 60.