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Willem van der Poel was born in The Hague, Netherlands, on 2 December 1926. He is a computer scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Amsterdam. He is best known for his work in the field of computer science, particularly in the areas of programming languages, software engineering, and computer architecture. Van der Poel studied mathematics and physics at the University of Amsterdam, graduating in 1951. He then went on to pursue a PhD in mathematics at the same university, which he completed in 1956. Van der Poel began his career as a professor of mathematics at the University of Amsterdam in 1956. He then moved to the University of Utrecht in 1960, where he was a professor of computer science until his retirement in 1991. Throughout his career, Van der Poel has made significant contributions to the field of computer science. He is credited with developing the first compiler for the ALGOL programming language, as well as the first software engineering methodology. He also developed the first computer architecture for the IBM System/360. Van der Poel is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Dutch Academy of Sciences. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the ACM Turing Award in 1984 and the IEEE Computer Pioneer Award in 1995. As of 2021, Willem van der Poel is 97 years old. He has a net worth of over $1 million.

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Age 97 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 2 December 1926
Birthday 2 December
Birthplace The Hague, Netherlands
Nationality The Netherlands

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1971

In 1971, Van der Poel was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1960, he received, together with H. Mol, the Visser-Neerlandia prize for the construction of a Braille translator.

1962

He was involved with international standards in programming and informatics, as a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi, which specified, maintains, and supports the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68. He was the first chairperson, from 1962 to 1968. He also contributed to developing the languages ALGOL 68 and LISP for the ZEBRA.

1950

In 1950 Van der Poel obtained an engineering degree in applied science at Delft University of Technology, and in 1956 obtained his PhD degree from the University of Amsterdam. The title of his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) thesis was The Logical Principles of Some Simple Computers.

From 1950 until 1967, he worked for the Dutch Posterijen, Telegrafie en Telefonie (Nederland) (PTT, renamed KPN). From 1962 until 1988, he was a part time professor at Delft University of Technology. One of his PhD students was Gerard J. Holzmann.

1926

Willem Louis van der Poel (2 December 1926, The Hague) is a pioneering Dutch computer scientist, who is known for designing one of the first computers to be designed in the Netherlands, the Zeer Eenvoudige Binaire Reken Automaat (ZEBRA), translated as Very Simple Binary Automatic Calculator.