Cornelis H. A. Koster

Cornelis H. A. Koster

Cornelis Hermanus Antonius "Kees" Koster (13 July 1943 – 21 March 2013) was a Dutch computer scientist. He was famous for his work with programming languages and teaching.

Koster became a professor in the Department of Informatics at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. His ideas helped change how computers understand and work with information.

His work still helps students and researchers in computer science all over the world.

Biography

Koster was born on 13 July 1943, in Haarlem. After World War II, his family moved to Jakarta. At age 11, he returned to the Netherlands on his own. He studied at the University of Amsterdam and later worked at the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam.

There, he helped create the original Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68. He also worked on developing international standards in programming and informatics with the International Federation for Information Processing. In 1972, Koster moved to Berlin to start an informatics course at Technische Universität Berlin. In 1977, he became the first Professor of Informatics at the Radboud University Nijmegen.