The term "data science" (originally used interchangeably with "datalogy") has existed for over thirty years and emerged as a substitute for computer science by Peter Naur in 1960.
In tight collaboration with Peter Naur and others, he developed reliable, well documented compilers to the ALGOL 60 programming language.
From 1959 to 1969, he was employed at Regnecentralen, the Danish computing institute, while at the same time giving lectures at the Niels Bohr Institute and the Technical University of Denmark.
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His last name is the N in the BNF notation (Backus-Naur form), used in the description of the syntax for most programming languages.
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In the 1960s, Brinch Hansen worked at the Danish computer company Regnecentralen, first in the compiler group headed by Peter Naur and Jørn Jensen, and, later, as the chief architect of the RC 4000 minicomputer and its renowned operating system kernel (RC 4000 Multiprogramming System).