Computer Science
- May 27–June 2 - A joint meeting of the ACM and GAMM at ETH Zurich agrees to produce the International Algebraic Language, which will become the programming language ALGOL.
- Friedrich L. Bauer and other members of the ZMMD-Group build a working ALGOL 58 compiler.
- John McCarthy specifies the Lisp programming language.
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