Bjarne Stroustroup- Biography
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
• Introduction:- Bjarne Stroustrup the founder and the developer of C++, was born on December 30, 1950 Aarhus Denmark. At presaent he is the professor and the holder of the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M University. A rough English attempt at the pronunciation if his name would be “B-yar-ne strov-stroop”.
bjarne stroustrup- Developer of C++
Stroustrup began developing C++ in 1979 (then called “C with Classes”), and, in his own words, “invented C++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation… chose and formulated the design criteria for C++, designed all its major facilities, and was responsible for the processing of extension proposals in the C++ standards committee.”
Stroustrup also wrote what many consider to be the standard text for the language, The C++ Programming Language, which is now in its third edition. The text has been revised twice to reflect the evolution of the language and the work of the C++ standards committee.
• Education and Academic work:
Stroustrup has a master degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Aarhus Denmark, and a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, England. He was the head of AT&T Lab’s Large-scale Programming Research department, from its creation until late 2002. Stroustrup was elected member of The National Academy of Engineering in 2004. He is a Fellow of the ACM (1994) and an IEEE Fellow. He currently works at Texas A&M University as a Professor where he holds the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science.
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