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Peter Wegner

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American computer scientist (1932-2017)

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Peter A. Wegner 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.

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2000ACM Distinguished Service Award
1995ACM Fellow

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Peter A. Wegner 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.

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Lived 1932 to 2017 · aged 84
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