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Kristen Nygaard, the Glossary

Kristen Nygaard (27 August 1926 – 10 August 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer, and politician.^[1]

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Dahl–Nygaard Prize
Norwegian computer scientists

Aalborg University

Aalborg University (AAU) is an international public university with campuses in Aalborg, Esbjerg, and Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Aarhus

Aarhus (officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality.

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Aarhus University

Aarhus University (Aarhus Universitet, abbreviated AU) is a public research university with its main campus located in Aarhus, Denmark.

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ALGOL 60

ALGOL 60 (short for Algorithmic Language 1960) is a member of the ALGOL family of computer programming languages.

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Anne Enger, formerly Anne Enger Lahnstein (born 9 December 1949), is a Norwegian politician who served as County Governor of Østfold from 2004 until 2015, and Leader of the Centre Party from 1991 to 1999, with opposition to the European Union.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.

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Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing.

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Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets

The Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets, also known as AITO, is a non-profit association to promote the advancement of research in object-oriented technology. Kristen Nygaard and association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets are Dahl–Nygaard Prize.

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BETA (programming language)

BETA is a pure object-oriented language originating within the "Scandinavian School" in object-orientation where the first object-oriented language Simula was developed.

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Birger Møller-Pedersen

Birger Møller-Pedersen (born 11 November 1949) is a computer scientist and professor at the University of Oslo, department of informatics. Kristen Nygaard and Birger Møller-Pedersen are academic staff of the University of Oslo.

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Centre Party (Norway)

The Centre Party (Senterpartiet, Sp; Guovddášbellodat), formerly the Farmer's Party (Bondepartiet, Bp), is an agrarian political party in Norway.

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Class (computer programming)

In object-oriented programming, a class defines the shared aspects of objects created from the class.

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Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) was a global organization promoting the responsible use of computer technology.

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Computer program

A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute.

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Computer science

Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation.

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Computer scientist

A computer scientist is a scholar who specializes in the academic study of computer science.

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Computing

Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery.

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Dahl–Nygaard Prize

The Dahl–Nygaard Prize is awarded annually to a senior researcher with outstanding career contributions and a younger researcher who has demonstrated great potential.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.

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Distributed computing

Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems, defined as computer systems whose inter-communicating components are located on different networked computers.

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Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union

The economic and monetary union (EMU) of the European Union is a group of policies aimed at converging the economies of member states of the European Union at three stages.

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The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union, as renamed by the Lisbon Treaty.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Harald V

Harald V (Harald den femte,; born 21 February 1937) is King of Norway.

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IEEE John von Neumann Medal

The IEEE John von Neumann Medal was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1990 and may be presented annually "for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology." The achievements may be theoretical, technological, or entrepreneurial, and need not have been made immediately prior to the date of the award.

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Informatics

Informatics is the study of computational systems.

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Inheritance

Inheritance is the practice of receiving private property, titles, debts, entitlements, privileges, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) professional association for electronics engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines.

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International Organization for Standardization

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries.

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Labour movement

The labour movement is the collective organisation of working people to further their shared political and economic interests.

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Liberal Party (Norway)

The Liberal Party (Venstre,, V; Gurutbellodat) is a centrist political party in Norway.

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List of pioneers in computer science

This is a list of people who made transformative breakthroughs in the creation, development and imagining of what computers could do.

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Lund University

Lund University (Lunds universitet) is a public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities.

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Maastricht Treaty

The Treaty on European Union, commonly known as the Maastricht Treaty, is the foundation treaty of the European Union (EU).

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Master of Science

A Master of Science (Magister Scientiae; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree.

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Monte Carlo method

Monte Carlo methods, or Monte Carlo experiments, are a broad class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to obtain numerical results.

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No to the EU (Norway)

No to the EU (NTEU) (Nei til EU) is a Norwegian bipartisan political organization opposed to Norwegian accession to the European Union.

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Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility

The Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility was established in 1987 in honor of Norbert Wiener to recognize contributions by computer professionals to socially responsible use of computers.

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Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Kristen Nygaard and Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters are members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

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Norwegian Computing Center

Norwegian Computing Center (NR, in Norwegian: Norsk Regnesentral) is a private, independent, non-profit research foundation.

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Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt – FFI) is a research institute that conducts research and development on behalf of the Norwegian Armed Forces and provides expert advice to political and military defence leaders.

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Object (computer science)

In computer science, an object is a programming element that has state, has associated operations and is accessed via an identifier.

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Object Management Group

The Object Management Group (OMG) is a computer industry standards consortium.

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Object-oriented programming

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of objects, which can contain data and code: data in the form of fields (often known as attributes or properties), and code in the form of procedures (often known as methods).

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OECD

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.

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Olav Terje Bergo

Olav Terje Bergo (born 8 October 1946) is a Norwegian former newspaper editor.

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Ole-Johan Dahl

Ole-Johan Dahl (12 October 1931 – 29 June 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist. Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl are academic staff of the University of Oslo, Dahl–Nygaard Prize, Norwegian computer scientists, programming language designers and Turing Award laureates.

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Operations research

Operations research (operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve decision-making.

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Order of St. Olav

The Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav (Den Kongelige Norske Sankt Olavs Orden; or Sanct Olafs Orden, the old Norwegian name) is a Norwegian order of chivalry instituted by King Oscar I on 21 August 1847.

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Oslo

Oslo (or; Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Participatory design

Participatory design (originally co-operative design, now often co-design) is an approach to design attempting to actively involve all stakeholders (e.g. employees, partners, customers, citizens, end users) in the design process to help ensure the result meets their needs and is usable.

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Politics of Norway

The politics of Norway take place in the framework of a parliamentary, representative democratic constitutional monarchy.

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Programming language

A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs.

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Research Council of Norway

The Research Council (also the Research Council of Norway; Norges forskningsråd) is a Norwegian government agency that funds research and innovation projects.

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Simula

Simula is the name of two simulation programming languages, Simula I and Simula 67, developed in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo, by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard.

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Simula Research Laboratory

Simula Research Laboratory (also known as Simula) is a Norwegian non-profit research organisation located in Oslo, Norway.

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Simulation

A simulation is an imitative representation of a process or system that could exist in the real world.

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Stein Ørnhøi

Stein Ørnhøi (born 15 November 1935 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party, he was the last party leader of the Socialist People's Party of Norway.

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Subset

In mathematics, a set A is a subset of a set B if all elements of A are also elements of B; B is then a superset of A. It is possible for A and B to be equal; if they are unequal, then A is a proper subset of B. The relationship of one set being a subset of another is called inclusion (or sometimes containment).

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Technical standard

A technical standard is an established norm or requirement for a repeatable technical task which is applied to a common and repeated use of rules, conditions, guidelines or characteristics for products or related processes and production methods, and related management systems practices.

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The European Alliance of EU-critical Movements

The European Alliance of EU-critical Movements or TEAM was a cooperation between Eurosceptic or EU-critical associations in various countries of Europe, including both non-partisan associations and political parties.

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Thread (computing)

In computer science, a thread of execution is the smallest sequence of programmed instructions that can be managed independently by a scheduler, which is typically a part of the operating system.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen_Nygaard

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Kristen Nygaard, the Glossary

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Dahl–Nygaard Prize

Norwegian computer scientists

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