Peter Naur
Danish computer scientist (1928–2016) and Turing Award winner (2005); author of 'Programming as Theory Building' (1985); co-editor of the 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference report
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Lived 1928–2016, aged 88
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Updated 2026-06-11
Peter Naur was a Danish computer science pioneer and 2005 Turing Award winner. He is best remembered as a contributor, with John Backus, to the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation used in describing the syntax for most programming languages. He also contributed to creating the language ALGOL 60.
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