Peter Naur has long been known as the driving force behind defining the programming language Algol 60. He was recently granted the Turing Award, which is considered by many to be the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for computing. Naur’s name is the ‘N’ in Backus-Naur Form (BNF), a meta-language used to define programming languages. For more information, see http://www.acm.org/2005_turing_award. (As far as the editors of the Sentinel know, Peter Naur bears no relation to Carleton CS prof Richard Nau.)