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    Adriaan "Aad" van Wijngaarden (2 November 1916 – 7 February 1987) was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist. Trained as a mechanical engineer,...
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  • formal languages. The name derives from the formalism invented by Adriaan van Wijngaarden for the purpose of defining the ALGOL 68 programming language....
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  • 1145/1139498.1139500. S2CID 38156680. Retrieved 12 August 2020. "Adriaan Van Wijngaarden" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2013. Investigations...
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  • little of an advance over ALGOL 60, and the more complex entry from Adriaan van Wijngaarden that would later become ALGOL 68 was selected in a highly contentious...
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    physics and then theoretical physics at the University of Leiden. Adriaan van Wijngaarden offered him a job as the first computer programmer in the Netherlands...
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  • "Wijngaarden". People with this name include: Adriaan van Wijngaarden (1916–1987), Dutch mathematician and computer scientist He devised a.o. the Van Wijngaarden...
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    gained his doctorate in 1974 under Adriaan van Wijngaarden. The Van Emde Boas tree is named after him. Dr. P. van Emde Boas, 1945 - at the University...
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  • van Wijngaarden (1916–1987), Dutch mathematician and computer scientist Adriaan van der Willigen Pz. (1810–1876), Dutch doctor and historian Adriaan Cornelis...
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    a two-level grammar formalism invented by Adriaan van Wijngaarden and which bears his name. Van Wijngaarden grammars use a context-free grammar to generate...
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  • using a formalism, a two-level formal grammar, invented by Adriaan van Wijngaarden. Van Wijngaarden grammars use a context-free grammar to generate an infinite...
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  • Peter Naur, Heinz Rutishauser, Klaus Samelson, Bernard Vauquois, Adriaan van Wijngaarden, and Michael Woodger (from Europe) John Warner Backus, Julien Green...
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    he worked at the Mathematisch Centrum (MC) in Amsterdam under Adriaan van Wijngaarden. There he was one of the editors of the original Report on the...
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  • s_{j,0}} then contains the partial sums of the Euler transform. Adriaan van Wijngaarden's contribution was to point out that it is better not to carry this...
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  • From 1966, he studied at Amsterdam's Mathematisch Centrum under Adriaan van Wijngaarden, earning a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 1968. He was the "first...
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  • ol_bulletin/1061688/p8-de_morgan.pdf ALGOL X and ALGOL Y - Lambert Meertens - CWI Lectures in honour of Adriaan van Wijngaarden - November 2016 v t e...
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  • Schwartz Micha Sharir David Turner Bernard Vauquois Eiiti Wada Wegstein^ Adriaan van Wijngaarden Mike Woodger Simula Ole-Johan Dahl Kristen Nygaard...
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    Van de Riet received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in computer science at the University of Amsterdam in 1968 under supervision of Adriaan van Wijngaarden...
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    Michael L. Scott, Programming Language Pragmatics, p. 228. 1968, Adriaan van Wijngaarden et al., Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68, section...
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  • quirky, popular Why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby to teach programming Adriaan van Wijngaarden – Dutch pioneer; ARRA, ALGOL, IFIP WG 2.1 member Bruce Wilcox –...
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    declinations, PhD thesis, 1957 95. (editor) Backus, J. W.; Wegstein, J. H.; van Wijngaarden, A.; Woodger, M.; Bauer, F. L.; Green, J.; Katz, C.; McCarthy, J.;...
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    thesis supervisor was Adriaan van Wijngaarden, who also supervised another notable Dutch computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra. Van Emden spent 1971 to...
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  • century. The computer science component developed soon after. Adriaan van Wijngaarden, considered the founder of computer science (or informatica) in...
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  • Schwartz Micha Sharir David Turner Bernard Vauquois Eiiti Wada Wegstein^ Adriaan van Wijngaarden Mike Woodger Simula Ole-Johan Dahl Kristen Nygaard...
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  • Schwartz Micha Sharir David Turner Bernard Vauquois Eiiti Wada Wegstein^ Adriaan van Wijngaarden Mike Woodger Simula Ole-Johan Dahl Kristen Nygaard...
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  • Schwartz Micha Sharir David Turner Bernard Vauquois Eiiti Wada Wegstein^ Adriaan van Wijngaarden Mike Woodger Simula Ole-Johan Dahl Kristen Nygaard...
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  • Schwartz Micha Sharir David Turner Bernard Vauquois Eiiti Wada Wegstein^ Adriaan van Wijngaarden Mike Woodger Simula Ole-Johan Dahl Kristen Nygaard...
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  • Schwartz Micha Sharir David Turner Bernard Vauquois Eiiti Wada Wegstein^ Adriaan van Wijngaarden Mike Woodger Simula Ole-Johan Dahl Kristen Nygaard...
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