Overview 2001 of SEN-0 Preface PNA SEN Colophon ... Index Biography of Aad van Wijngaarden - SEN0 Aad van Wijngaarden (1916-1987), founding father of computer science in The Netherlands and former director of CWI, is the subject of a historical research project. The leading theme in the composition of a scientific biography is Mathematical beauty and a taste for language. In his scholarship Van Wijngaarden, engineer by training, was strongly guided by mathematical beauty. It made him consider scientific computing in its own right (1946), made him turn towards programming languages (1958) and reared his preferences in the design of ALGOL 68. In 2001 research was continued by archival searches and interviews in The Netherlands, the US (Boston, Washington and Princeton) and the UK (Oxford and Cambridge). Organization of Conferences, Workshops, Courses, etc. - GMFW symposium about Dirk Struik at the 37th Nederlands Mathematisch Congres, Amsterdam, April 19-20: Gerard Alberts and Teun Koetsier (organization, chair)
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