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Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist, known for the development of the C++ programming language. He led the Large-scale Programming Research department at Bell Labs, served as a professor of computer science at Texas A&M University, and spent over a decade at Morgan Stanley while also being a visiting professor at Columbia University. Since 2022 he has been a full professor at Columbia…
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culture · Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950) · computer scientist · engineer · programmer · writer · university teacher · also Bjarne Stroustrup, Stroustrup
Born 30 December 1950 · Q92620
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Computer Hoy: Bjarne Stroustrup, creador del lenguaje C++: "Nunca vi un ordenador hasta que no tuve 18 o 19 años; era un estudiante normalito, necesité algo de suerte, pero es más probable decir que cuanto más trabajé, más suerte tuve"
The Stanford Daily: C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup reimagines how coding is taught
InfoWorld: C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup defends its safety
Awarded Computer Pioneer Award (2018).
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Awarded John Scott Award (2018).
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Awarded Charles Stark Draper Prize (2018).
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Won Faraday Medal (2017).
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Awarded Dahl–Nygaard Prize (2015).
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Electronic Design: Bjarne Stroustrup Talks About C++14
Yahoo Finance: Bjarne Stroustrup, Designer of the C++ Programming Language, to Join Embarcadero for Live Conversation During CodeRage 7
Awarded Rigmor and Carl Holst-Knudsen Award for Scientific Research (2010).
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MIT Technology Review: Bjarne Stroustrup
Awarded William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement (2005).
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Awarded ACM Fellow (1994).
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Awarded Grace Murray Hopper Award (1993).
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Was made a Bell Labs fellow and in 1996, an AT&T Fellow
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“[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate "culture" with no outlet for unique talents and skills. Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.”
“There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful — many more.”
Began developing C++ (initially called "C with Classes")
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Received his PhD in computer science from the University of Cambridge, where his research on distributed computing was supervised by David Wheeler
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Stroustrup began his career as a member of technical staff in the Computer Science Research Center of Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey
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Studied at Aarhus University (1969–1975).
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Born 1950-12-30.
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