Joseph Henry Wegstein, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 07-Apr-1922
Date of Death: 16-Aug-2015
Profession: computer scientist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Joseph Henry Wegstein
- Joseph Henry Wegstein (April 7, 1922 in Washburn, Illinois - August 16, 1985) was an American computer scientist.Wegstein attended the University of Illinois, where he graduated with a Master's Degree in physics in 1948.
- He worked at the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST), where he specialized in standards for automatic data processing and in particular in the technology of fingerprint recognition. He participated in conferences in Zurich in 1958 and Paris in 1960 which developed the programming languages Algol 58 and Algol 60 respectively.
- As a member of the CODASYL committee he was involved in the development of the COBOL language.
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