Peter Wegner

Peter Wegner studied at University of London, Bunce Court School and University of Westminster. The recorded working language is German and English. The field of work recorded is computer science. Employment is recorded with University of London, Prudential plc and Pennsylvania State University. Distinctions recorded are ACM Fellow and ACM Distinguished Service Award.

• Born — 20 August 1932 • Birthplace — Leningrad, USSR • Died — 27 July 2017 • Fields — Computer science • Workplaces — University of London University of Cambridge Brown University • Education — University of London • Thesis Title — Programming Languages, Information Structures And Machine Organization • Thesis Url — http: dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1096484 • Thesis Year — 1968 • Doctoral Advisor — Maurice Wilkes • Doctoral Students — William Cook • Awards — Fellow of the ACM Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class • Website — https: www.cs.brown.edu/~pw

Wegner was educated at the University of Cambridge and received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Numerical Analysis and Automatic Computing in 1954, at a time when there were no PhD programs in computer science. He was awarded a PhD from the University of London in 1968 for his book Programming Languages, Information Structures, and Machine Organization, with Maurice Wilkes listed as his supervisor.

Wegner's seminal work in the area of object-oriented programming is On Understanding Types, which was co-authored with Luca Cardelli. On the relevance of the Church–Turing thesis, he co-authored several papers and co-edited a book Interactive Computation: the New Paradigm, which was published in 2006.

Peter Wegner worked in computer science. He was employed by University of London, Prudential plc, Pennsylvania State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. He belonged to Association for Computing Machinery.