The Saga of Ole-Johan Dahl
Category
Scientists & Inventors
Era / Tenure
12 October 1931 – 29 June 2002
Leaderboard Rank
#291 in Scientists & Inventors
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30,523 Hearts
ORIGINS & BACKGROUND
Profile & Early Foundations
Ole-Johan Dahl (12 October 1931 – 29 June 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist.
THE JOURNEY & BREAKTHROUGHS
Major Works & Significant Milestones
Dahl was a professor of computer science at the University of Oslo and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along with Kristen Nygaard.
Key Milestone & Career Defining Moment
In 2001, Dahl and Nygaard won the ACM Turing Award.
