Niklaus Wirth, Professor, retired Address: Departement Informatik ETH Zentrum CH-8092 Zurich (Switzerland) Niklaus Wirth was born in February 1934 in Winterthur, Switzerland. He received the degree of Electronics Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich in 1959, an M.Sc. from Laval University, Canada, in 1960, and a Ph.D. from the University of California at ...