kristen nygaard (1926 - 2002).

one has succeeded in keeping norway out of the europian union.

one of the important norwegians among - NO to EU - in norway. was the computer science - expert kristen nygaard. who unfortunely died in 2002. he was one of the leaders behind the norwegian - NO to EU - in 1994. you can read more about him on his homesite :
http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~kristen/


except from his biography :

he has taught at both norwegian, swedish and danish universities


about "Nei til EU" :

Kristen Nygaard became in November 1988 the Chair of the Information Committee on Norway and the EEC, in August 1990 reorganised as "Nei til EU" (No to European Union Membership for Norway), the organisation disseminating information from a critical point of view about Norway's relation to the Common Market, and coordinating the efforts to keep Norway outside.

"Nei til EU" became the largest political organisation in Norway (145.000 members in 1994, in a population of 4 millions).

In the referendum on 28. November 1994 "Nei til EU" succeeded: 52.2% of the electorate voted "No", and the voter participation was the highest ever in Norway's history - 88.8%. He resigned as chair in 1995, and has since been the chair of the organisation's strategy committee and is now member of its Council.



In November 2001 he was, together with Ole-Johan Dahl, awarded the John von Neumann Medal by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) vith the citation: "For the introduction of the concepts underlying object-oriented programming through the design and implementation of SIMULA 67".

In February 2002 he was given, once more together with Ole-Johan Dahl, the A. M. Turing Award by the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) for 2001, with the citation: "For ideas fundamental to the emergence of object oriented programming, through their design of the programming languages Simula I and Simula 67."

In August 2000 he was made Commander of the Order of Saint Olav by the King of Norway.



I have personally met him, while I was studying computer science at the university of copenhagen, where was there as a guest-teacher.



books and aticels about him :

the norwegian NO-general shal lead the european union-resistance
history of OOP (object oriented programming)
the union and the EDC-development EDC introduces a new an extended power to the employers
the Systemspecialists situation in theeighties : their assigments, their roles, and own interests
People behind informatics : in memory of Ole-Johan Dahl, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Kristen Nygaard (book)
System Description and the DELTA Language (book)
planning, controlling and computing : basical book for the union (book)

kritik af EU - EU-modstand

kristen nygaards egen hjemmside

andre ber�mte systemkritikere