Peter Naur

Personal Homepage:
http://www.naur.com
Current place of employment:
Pensioned, formerly University of Copenhagen

Danish scientist, born 1928.
Mag. Scient. in astronomy 1949, Dr. Phil. 1957.
1953-59 at Copenhagen University's Astronomiske Observatorium.
1959-69 at Regnecentralen and lecturer at Danmarks Tekniske Højskole and the Niels Bohr Institute.
1969-98 Professor of Computer Science (Datalogi) at Copenhagen University.
2006 Turing award for contributions to ALGOL 60.
Turing Award Video Lecture at UIST 2006, Montreux, Switzerland.

Publications by Peter Naur (bibliography)

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» 2007 «

Naur, Peter (2007): Computing versus human thinking. In Communications of the ACM, 50 (1) pp. 85-94

» 2006 «

Naur, Peter (2006): Computing versus human thinking. In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2006. pp. 1-2. Available online

» 2000 «

Naur, Peter (2000): CHI and Human Thinking. In: Proceedings of the First Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2000. .

» 1992 «

Naur, Peter (1992): Computing: A Human Activity. New York, ACM Press

» 1975 «

Naur, Peter (1975): Programming Languages, Natural Languages, and Mathematics. In Communications of the ACM, 18 (12) pp. 676-683

» 1966 «

Naur, Peter (1966): Program translation viewed as a general data processing problem. In Communications of the ACM, 9 (3) pp. 176-179

» 1965 «

Naur, Peter (1965): The performance of a system for automatic segmentation of programs within an ALGOL compiler (GIER ALGOL). In Communications of the ACM, 8 (11) pp. 671-676

» 1964 «

Naur, Peter (1964): Certification of algorithm 122: Tridiagonal matrix. In Communications of the ACM, 7 (3) pp. 144-145

Naur, Peter (1964): Certification of algorithm 150: SYMINV2. In Communications of the ACM, 7 (3) p. 148

Naur, Peter (1964): Remarks on algorithm 91: Chebyshev curve fit. In Communications of the ACM, 7 (5) p. 296

» 1963 «

Backus, John W., Bauer, Friedrich L., Green, Julien, Katz, C., McCarthy, John, Perlis, Alan J., Rutishauser, Heinz, Samelson, Klaus, Vauquois, Bernard, Wegstein, Joseph Henry, Wijngaarden, Adriaan van, Woodger, Michael and Naur, Peter (1963): Revised report on the algorithm language ALGOL 60. In Communications of the ACM, 6 (1) pp. 1-17

Naur, Peter (1963): Remarks on algorithm 42: invert. In Communications of the ACM, 6 (1) p. 38

Naur, Peter (1963): Remarks on and certification of algorithm 50: inverse of a finite segment of the Hilbert matrix. In Communications of the ACM, 6 (1) pp. 38-39

Naur, Peter (1963): Remarks on and certification of algorithm 52: a set of test matrices. In Communications of the ACM, 6 (1) p. 39

Naur, Peter (1963): Certification of algorithm for calculating primes by means of GPS. In Communications of the ACM, 6 (1) p. 39

Naur, Peter (1963): Remark on algorithm 107: Gauss's method. In Communications of the ACM, 6 (1) p. 39

Naur, Peter (1963): Certification of algorithms 117 and 118 magic squares (even and odd orders). In Communications of the ACM, 6 (1) pp. 39-40

Naur, Peter (1963): Certification of algorithms 120 and matrix inversion by Gauss-Jordan inversion II. In Communications of the ACM, 6 (1) p. 40

Naur, Peter (1963): Documentation problems: ALGOL 60. In Communications of the ACM, 6 (3) pp. 77-79

Naur, Peter (1963): Correction to earlier remarks on algorithm 42 invert, alg. 107 Gauss's method, alg 120 inversion II, and gjr. In Communications of the ACM, 6 (8) p. 445

Naur, Peter (1963): Additional remarks on algorithm 52: a set of test matrices. In Communications of the ACM, 6 (8) p. 446

Naur, Peter (1963): Certification of algorithm 85: Jacobi. In Communications of the ACM, 6 (8) pp. 447-448

» 1961 «

Jensen, J., Mondrup, P. and Naur, Peter (1961): A storage allocation scheme for ALGOL 60. In Communications of the ACM, 4 (10) pp. 441-445

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