Ole-Johan Dahl

Name: Ole-Johan Dahl

Born: October 12, 1931, in Mandal, Norway

Death: June 29, 2002 (Age: 70)

Computer-related contributions

• Norwegian computer scientist who is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming.
• Produced the initial ideas for object-oriented programming in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center as part of the Simula I and Simula 67 simulation programming languages.

Significant publications

• Structured Programming (1972).

Honors and awards

• IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2002).
• Turing Award (2001).