Peter Wegner
Peter Wegner may refer to: * Peter Wegner (computer scientist) (1932–2017), professor of computer science at Brown University, Rhode Island, United States * Peter Wegner (American artist) (born 1963) * Peter Wegner (Australian artist) See also * Peter Wagner (other) Peter Wagner may refer to: * Peter Wagner (Manitoba politician) (1916–1995), Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba * Peter Wagner (social theorist), German social theorist * Peter J. Wagner (born 1964), American p ...

Peter Wegner (computer Scientist)
Peter A. Wegner (August 20, 1932 – July 27, 2017) was a professor of computer science at Brown University from 1969 to 1999. He made significant contributions to both 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 and present. In 2016, Wegner wrote a brief autobiography for ''Conduit'', the annual Brown University Computer Science department magazine.Wegner, Peter
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Education

Wegner was educated at the University of Cambridge and received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Numerical Analysis and Automatic Computing in 1954, at a time when there were no Doctor of Philosophy, PhD programs in computer science. He w ...
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Peter Wegner (American Artist)
Peter Wegner (born 1963) is an American artist whose works consist of paintings, photographs, collages, prints, artist's books, and large-scale installations. His pieces are included in major public and private collections worldwide. Early life and education Wegner was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He earned his BA at Yale University. He works in multiple media, ranging from paintings and photography to large-scale installations and wall works. Themes Critics and scholars have identified at least four major themes in Wegner's work. Systems The first theme is the idea of systems and their hidden inadequacies. As architectural scholar Noah Chasin wrote in a 2007 essay, "Systems often make appearances in Wegner's work to suggest the potential for order, yet the artist continually exposes them as means of introducing disorder… systematically questions their foundations from within so that the very integrity of each system's signifying capacity is compromised…. ...
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Peter Wegner (Australian Artist)
Peter Wegner (born 1953) is a Melbourne-based figurative painter, sculptor, and drawing, draughtsman. His work hangs in many galleries in Australia, and he is known for winning the Archibald Prize in 2021. Early life and education Peter Wegner was born in 1953. He gained a fine arts degree in 1985, and obtained a postgraduate diploma in 1988 from the Phillip Institute of Technology. In 2007 he completed a Master of Fine Arts at Monash University. Career After Wegner exhibited his work in a in group exhibition in 1977, having had no training in art, he was awarded a two-year Alice Marian Ellen Bale#AME Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize, A.M.E. Bale residential painting scholarship under Sir William Dargie. After gaining his degree and diploma, he started lecturing in the Drawing Department of Ballarat University, and has also since been a visiting lecturer at La Trobe University, La Trobe, Monash and RMIT University, RMIT universities. Exhibitions Wegner has held ...
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