Peter Wegner (computer scientist)
Peter Wegner | |
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| Born | August 20, 1932 |
| Died | July 27, 2017 (aged 84) |
| Alma mater | University of London |
| Awards | Fellow of the ACM (1995) Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class (1999) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of London University of Cambridge Brown University |
| Thesis | Programming Languages, Information Structures And Machine Organization (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | Maurice Wilkes |
| Doctoral students | William Cook |
| Website | www |
Peter A. Wegner (August 20, 1932 – July 27, 2017) was a professor of computer science at Brown University from 1969 to 1999. He made significant contributions to both the theory of object-oriented programming during the 1980s and to the relevance of the Church–Turing thesis for empirical aspects of computer science during the 1990s and present. In 2016, Wegner wrote a brief autobiography for Conduit, the annual Brown University Computer Science department magazine.