Friedrich L. Bauer was a German computer scientist who was a co-developer of the ALGOL programming language and is credited with introducing the stack, or last-in-first-out, principle into computer science for managing subroutine calls and expression evaluation. Bauer is also widely credited with proposing the term software engineering at a 1968 NATO conference convened to address what participants called the software crisis, the growing difficulty of building large, reliable software systems.
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AwardOfficer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2 Awardhonorary doctorate from Joseph Fourier University 2 AwardHeinz Maier Leibnitz Medal 2 AwardBavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art 2 AwardBavarian Order of Merit 2 AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Passau 2 Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Friedrich L. Bauer
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Friedrich Ludwig "Fritz" Bauer (10 June 1924-26 March 2015) was a German pioneer of computer science and professor at the Technical University of Munich.
2. Wikidata: Friedrich L. Bauer
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