His textbook, Systematic Programming: An Introduction, was considered a good source for students who wanted to do more than just coding.
These were replaced in the later editions with examples written in Modula-2 and Oberon respectively. The examples in the first edition were written in Pascal. Major revisions of this book with the new title Algorithms + Data Structures were published in 19. In 1975, he wrote the book Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, which gained wide recognition. His article Program Development by Stepwise Refinement, about the teaching of programming, is considered to be a classic text in software engineering.
His book, written jointly with Kathleen Jensen, The Pascal User Manual and Report, served as the basis of many language implementation efforts in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States and across Europe. In 1994, he was inducted as a Fellow of the ACM. In 1984, he received the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Turing Award for the development of these languages. He was also a major part of the design and implementation team for the operating systems Medos-2 (1983, for the Lilith workstation), and Oberon (1987, for the Ceres workstation), and for the Lola (1995) digital hardware design and simulation system. In 2004, he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for seminal work in programming languages and algorithms, including Euler, Algol-W, Pascal, Modula, and Oberon." Programming languages He was involved with developing international standards in programming and informatics, as a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi, which specified, maintains, and supports the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68. Then in 1968, he became Professor of Informatics at ETH Zürich, taking two one-year sabbaticals at Xerox PARC in California (1976–19–1985). Then in 1963, he was awarded a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from the University of California, Berkeley, supervised by the computer design pioneer Harry Huskey.įrom 1963 to 1967, he served as assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University and again at the University of Zurich. In 1960, he earned a Master of Science (MSc) from Université Laval, Canada. In 1959, he earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in electronic engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich). Wirth was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1934.
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