Bjarne Stroustrup

- Born in Aarhus Denmark 1950. Cand.Scient. (Mathematics and Computer Science), 1975, University of Aarhus Denmark. Ph.D. (Computer Science) 1979, Cambridge University, England.

The designer and original implementer of C++ and the author of "The C++ Programming Language" ( 1st edition 1985, 2nd edition 1991 3rd edition 1997 "special" edition 2000) and The Design and Evolution of C++. His research interests include distributed systems, design, programming techniques, software development tools, and programming languages.

Dr. Stroustrup is the College of Engineering Chair Professor in Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He retains a link with AT&T Labs - Research as a member of the Information and Systems Software Research Lab. He was elected member of The National Academy of Engineering in 2004. He was given the IEEE Computer Society's 2004 Computer Entrepreneur Award and was awarded the 2005 William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement from Sigma Xi (the scientific research society). He is an AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellow and an AT&T Fellow. He is actively involved in the ANSI/ISO standardization of C++. Recipient of the 1993 ACM Grace Murray Hopper award. ACM fellow. IEEE Fellow. Member of the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science.

His non-research interests include general history, light literature, photography, hiking and running, travel, and music. He lives in College Station (Texas, USA) with his wife; their daughter is a medical doctor and their son is a graduate student studying systems biology.

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