Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrup
	Stroustrup in 2010
Born	30 December 1950; Aarhus, Denmark
Nationality	Danish
Alma mater	Aarhus University (Cand.scient.); University of Cambridge (PhD);
Known for	C++
Spouse	Marian Tinson (m. 1975)
Children	2
Awards	Grace Murray Hopper Award (1993); ACM Fellow (1994); IEEE Fellow (1994); William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement (2005); Dr. Dobb's Excellence Award (2008); Dahl–Nygaard Prize (2015); CHM Fellow (2015); IET Faraday Medal (2017); Charles Stark Draper Prize (2018); Computer Pioneer Award (2018); John Scott Medal (2018);
	Scientific career
Institutions	Aarhus University; University of Cambridge; Texas A&M University; Bell Labs; Morgan Stanley; Columbia University;
Thesis	Communication and control in distributed computer systems (1979)
Doctoral advisor	David Wheeler
Website	stroustrup.com

Bjarne Stroustrup (/ˈbjɑːrnə ˈstrɒvstrʊp/; Danish: [ˈpjɑːnə ˈstʁʌwˀstʁɔp]; born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the invention and development of the C++ programming language. Stroustrup served as a visiting professor of computer science at Columbia University beginning in 2014, where he has been a full professor since 2022.

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