Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup (born June 11, 1950 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a computer scientist and the College of Engineering Chair Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He is most notable for developing the C++ programming language. A rough English attempt at pronunciation of his name would be "B-yar-ne Strov-stoop".

Awards & accomplishments

• 1990 - Named one of "America's twelve top young scientists" by Fortune Magazine.
• 1993 - ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Grace Murray Hopper Award for early work on C++.
• 1995 - Byte magazine named Stroustrup one of the 20 most influential people in the computer industry.
• 1996 - Stroustrup was named an AT&T Fellow: "For fundamental contributions to the development of computer languages and object-oriented programming, culminating in the C++ programming language."
• 1998 - Stroustrup was named ACM Fellow: For his early work laying the foundations for the C++ programming language. Based on the foundations and Dr. Stroustrup's continuing efforts, C++ has become one of the most influential programming languages in the history of computing.
• 2004 - National Academy of Engineering, 2004
• 2004 - IEEE Computer Society 2004 Computer Entrepreneur Award