Peter Naur
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Peter Naur was a Danish computer science pioneer and 2005 Turing Award winner. He is best remembered as a contributor, with John Backus, to the Backus–Naur form notation used in describing the syntax
Naur in 2008
Christiane Floyd
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Christiane Floyd is an Austrian computer scientist. In 1978, she accomplished becoming the very first female professor of computer science in Germany, and was a pioneer of evolutionary participatory s
Peter Naur
…form (attributed to him by Donald Knuth) and said that he would prefer it to be called the Backus normal form. Naur was married to computer scientist Christiane Floyd. Naur disliked the term computer science and suggested it be called datalogy or data science. The former term has been adopted in Denmark and Sweden…
Floyd speaking at a conference at the HTW Berlin on 31 March 2015