Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
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Bjarne Stroustrup
Stroustrup in 2010
Born
(1950-12-30) 30 December 1950 (age 73)
Aarhus, Denmark
Nationality
Danish
Alma mater
Aarhus University (Cand.scient.)
University of Cambridge (PhD)
Known for
C++
Spouse
Marian Tinson
(m. 1975)
Children
2
Awards
Grace Murray Hopper Award (1993)
ACM Fellow (1994)
IEEE Fellow (1994)
William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement (2005)
Dr. Dobb's Excellence Award (2008)
Dahl–Nygaard Prize (2015)
CHM Fellow (2015)
IET Faraday Medal (2017)
Charles Stark Draper Prize (2018)
Computer Pioneer Award (2018)
John Scott Medal (2018)
Scientific career
Institutions
Aarhus University
University of Cambridge
Texas A&M University
Bell Labs
Morgan Stanley
Columbia University
Thesis
Communication and control in distributed computer systems(1979)
Doctoral advisor
David Wheeler[1]
Website
stroustrup.com
Bjarne Stroustrup (/ˈbjɑːrnəˈstrɒvstrʊp/; Danish:[ˈpjɑːnəˈstʁʌwˀstʁɔp];[2][3] born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the invention and development of the C++ programming language.[4] Stroustrup served as a visiting professor of computer science at Columbia University beginning in 2014, where he has been a full professor since 2022.[5]
^Bjarne Stroustrup at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^Stroustrup, Bjarne. "How do you pronounce "Bjarne Stroustrup?"". Bjarne Stroustrup's Homepage. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
^Stroustrup, Bjarne. "Bjarne pronounces his own name". Bjarne Stroustrup's Homepage. Archived from the original on 20 September 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
^Wong, William (29 October 2013). "Interview: Bjarne Stroustrup Discusses C++". Electronic Design. Archived from the original on 22 November 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
^"Bjarne Stroustrup". Columbia Engineering. 1 July 2020. Archived from the original on 13 October 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
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