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Kristen Nygaard
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Norwegian computer scientist who, with Ole-Johan Dahl, developed Simula at the Norwegian Computing Center in the 1960s, introducing the class and object concepts that founded object oriented programming. He and Dahl shared the 2001 Turing Award.
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Kristen Nygaard, with Ole-Johan Dahl, designed Simula in the 1960s, widely regarded as the first object-oriented programming language, and is called a father of object-oriented programming.
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With Ole-Johan Dahl, he developed the initial ideas for object-oriented programming (OOP) in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center (Norsk Regnesentral (NR)) as part of the Simula I (1961-1965) and Simula 67 (1965-1968) simulation programming languages.
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Born 27 August 1926, Oslo, Norway; died 10 August 2002, Oslo, Norway.
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