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Peter Wegner

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Peter A. Wegner, who lived from August 20, 1932 to July 27, 2017, was a professor of computer science at Brown University from 1969 to 1999. He made significant contributions to the theory of object-oriented programming during the 1980s and to the relevance of the Church-Turing thesis for empirical aspects of computer science during the 1990s.

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Peter Wegner (computer scientist) (1932-2017), professor of computer science at Brown University, Rhode Island, United States
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