时间：2012年5月25日上午10:00-11:30
地点：玉泉校区曹光彪主楼218室
讲座人：Niklaus Wirth教授
讲座主题：Education for Understanding, not just Knowledge and
Skills or How to Cope with Proliferating Complexity
Niklaus Wirth教授简历：
Niklaus Wirth was born in February 1934 in Winterthur, Switzerland. He studied electrical engineering at ETH (Federal Institute of Technology) in Zürich, graduated in 1959, and received a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1963. Wirth has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University (1963-67) and, after his return to Switzerland, a Professor of Informatics at ETH from 1968 – 1999. His principal areas of contribution were programming languages and methodology, software engineering, and design of personal workstations. He has designed the programming languages Algol W (1965), Pascal (1970), Modula-2 (1979) and Oberon (1988), was involved in the methodologies of Structured Programming and Stepwise Refinement, and designed and built the workstations Lilith (1980) and Ceres (1986). He has published several text books for courses on programming, algorithms and data structures, and logical design of digital circuits. He has received many prizes and honorary doctorates, including the Turing Award (1984), the IEEE Computer Pioneer (1988), the Award for outstanding contributions to Computer Science Education (ACM 1987), and the IBM Europe Science and Technology Award in 1989.
