Editing Niklaus Wirth (section)

==Career==
From 1963 to 1967, Wirth served as assistant professor of [[computer science]] at [[Stanford University]] and again at the [[University of Zurich|University of Zürich]].<ref name=HDS/> In 1968, he became a professor of [[informatics]] at ETH Zürich, taking two one-year sabbaticals at [[Xerox PARC]] in California (1976–1977 and 1984–1985). He retired in 1999.<ref name="Pioneer">{{cite book |last1=Pomberger |first1=Gustav |last2=Mössenböck |first2=Hanspeter |last3=Rechenberg |first3=Peter |title=The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity |date=2000 |publisher=Gulf Professional Publishing |isbn=978-3-932588-85-3 |page=6 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6kHs4s-79bkC&dq=Niklaus%20Wirth%20retired%201999&pg=PA6 |language=en |chapter=Niklaus Wirth - a Pioneer of Computer Science}}</ref>

Although Wirth was involved with developing [[international standard]]s in programming and informatics, as a member of the [[International Federation for Information Processing]] (IFIP) [[IFIP Working Group 2.1|Working Group 2.1]] on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ifipwg21wiki.cs.kuleuven.be/IFIP21/Profile |title=Profile of IFIP Working Group 2.1 |last1=Jeuring |first1=Johan |last2=Meertens |first2=Lambert |author2-link=Lambert Meertens |last3=Guttmann |first3=Walter |date=17 August 2016 |website=Foswiki |access-date=4 October 2020 |archive-date=8 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308150549/https://ifipwg21wiki.cs.kuleuven.be/IFIP21/Profile |url-status=live }}</ref> which [[Specification (technical standard)|specified]], maintains, and supports the [[programming language]]s [[ALGOL 60]] and [[ALGOL 68]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ifipwg21wiki.cs.kuleuven.be/IFIP21/ScopeEtc |title=ScopeEtc: IFIP21: Foswiki |last1=Swierstra |first1=Doaitse |last2=Gibbons |first2=Jeremy |author2-link=Jeremy Gibbons |last3=Meertens |first3=Lambert |author3-link=Lambert Meertens |date=2 March 2011 |website=Foswiki |access-date=4 October 2020 |archive-date=2 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902232853/https://ifipwg21wiki.cs.kuleuven.be/IFIP21/ScopeEtc |url-status=live }}</ref> he got frustrated by the discussions in the standards groups and published his languages later on as personal work, mainly [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]], [[Modula-2]] and [[Oberon (programming language)|Oberon]].

In 2004, he was made a Fellow of the [[Computer History Museum]] "for seminal work in programming languages and algorithms, including Euler, Algol-W, Pascal, Modula, and Oberon."<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/niklaus-wirth/ |title=Niklaus Wirth: 2004 Fellow |author=<!-- Unstated --> |website=Computer History Museum (CHM) |access-date=15 October 2019 |archive-date=3 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703183226/https://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/niklaus-wirth/ |url-status=live }}</ref>