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Bjarne Stroustrup
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Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist who created C++, one of the most widely used programming languages in the world. His work matters because C++ became fundamental to software development across many industries, from operating systems and games to financial systems and embedded devices.
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- Born
- 30 December 1950
- Works
- 25
Top works
- C++
- C++ Linguaggio, Libreria Standard
- Eine Tour durch C++
- Die C++-Programmiersprache
- C++ cheng xu she ji yu yan
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bjarne
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Aarhus
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Aarhus University
- Employer
- Columbia University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- John Scott Award
- Notable work
- C++
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Doctoral advisor
- David Wheeler
- Field of work
- computer science
- Official website
- stroustrup.com
- Image
- Bjarne Stroustrup (2013).jpg
- Residence
- United States
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- Commons category
- Bjarne Stroustrup
- date of birth
- 1950-12-30
- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
- streaming media URL
- www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102740023
- archives at
- Computer History Museum
- name in native language
- Bjarne Stroustrup
- ACM Classification Code (2012)
- 10011371
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- start of work period
- 1979-00-00
- end of work period
- 1990-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Bjarne Stroustrup (/ˈbjɑːrnə ˈstrɒvstrʊp/ ; Danish: [ˈbjɑːnə ˈstʁʌwˀstʁɔp]; born 30 December 1950) 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.
Early life and education
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