Peter Naur

Peter Naur (25 Oktoba 1928 - 3 Janairu 2016)  ya kasance ƙwararren masanin kimiyyar kwamfuta ɗan ƙasar Denmark kuma ya lashe kyautar Turing Award ta 2005. Ana tunawa da shi sosai a matsayin wanda ya ba da gudummawa, tare da John Backus, ga rubutun Backus–Naur (BNF) da aka yi amfani da shi wajen bayyana tsarin da yawancin harsunan shirye-shirye ke amfani da shi. Ya kuma ba da gudummawa wajen ƙirƙirar harshen ALGOL 60 .

 Tarihin Rayuwa 
Naur ya fara aikinsa a matsayin masanin ilmin taurari wanda ya sami digirin digirgir na Falsafa (Ph.D.) a shekarar 1957, amma haduwarsa da kwamfutoci ya haifar da canjin sana'a. Daga 1959 zuwa 1969, ya yi aiki a Regnecentralen, kamfanin kwamfuta na Denmark, yayin da a lokaci guda yake ba da lacca a Cibiyar Niels Bohr da Jami'ar Fasaha ta Denmark . Daga 1969 zuwa 1998, Naur farfesa ne a fannin kimiyyar kwamfuta a Jami'ar Copenhagen .

Ya kasance memba na Ƙungiyar Aiki ta Duniya ta IFIP (IFIP) 2.1 akan Harsunan Algorithmic da Calculi,  wanda ya ƙayyade, tallafawa, da kuma kula da harsunan ALGOL 60 da ALGOL 68.  Tsakanin shekarun 1960 da 1993 ya kasance memba na kwamitin edita na BIT Numerical Lissafi, wani mujalla da ta mayar da hankali kan nazarin lambobi . 

Manyan fannoni na binciken Naur sun haɗa da ƙira, tsari, da kuma aiwatar da shirye-shiryen kwamfuta da algorithms . Ya kuma yi fice a fannin injiniyan software da tsarin software . A cikin littafinsa Computing: A Human Activity (1992), wanda tarin gudummawarsa ga kimiyyar kwamfuta ne, ya ƙi makarantar shirye-shirye ta hukuma wacce ke ɗaukar shirye-shirye a matsayin reshe na lissafi . Bai so a haɗa shi da tsarin Backus-Naur ba (wanda Donald Knuth ya danganta masa) kuma ya ce zai fi son a kira shi tsarin Backus na yau da kullun .

Naur bai so kalmar kimiyyar kwamfuta ba kuma ya ba da shawarar a kira ta da ilimin bayanai ko kimiyyar bayanai . An yi amfani da kalmar farko a Denmark da Sweden a matsayin bayanan bayanai, yayin da ake amfani da kalmar ta ƙarshe yanzu don nazarin bayanai, gami da ƙididdiga da bayanan bayanai.
Rukuni:Mutuwan 2016
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1928

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