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Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bjarne Stroustrup (/ˈbjɑːrnə ˈstrɒvstrʊp/; Danish: [ˈpjɑːnə ˈstʁʌwˀstʁɔp];[2][3] born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer scientist, known for the development of the C++ programming language.[4] 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.[5]
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Bjarne Stroustrup | |
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Born | (1950-12-30) 30 December 1950 (age 73) |
Nationality | Danish |
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Known for | C++ |
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Marian Tinson (m. 1975) |
Children | 2 |
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Thesis | Communication and control in distributed computer systems (1979) |
Doctoral advisor | David Wheeler[1] |
Website | stroustrup.com |
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