Birger Møller-Pedersen (born 11 November 1949) is a

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

and

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at the University of Oslo, department of informatics. He published numerous works on object-oriented programming and has contributed to the creation of the BETA programming language, which is a descendant of

Simula Simula is the name of two simulation programming languages, Simula I and Simula 67, developed in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo, by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. Syntactically, it is an approximate superset of AL ...

Academic work

Møller-Pedersen is a professor at the department of informatics at the

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, Norway. He teaches courses mainly in compiler design and programming languages.

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University of OsloDepartment of InformaticsPersonal homepage
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