Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup (born 1950) is a Danish computer scientist known for developing the C++ programming language. Born in Aarhus, he studied at Aarhus University from 1969 to 1975, graduating in mathematics with computer science, and took his PhD in computer science at the University of Cambridge in 1979 under David Wheeler. That year he joined Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he began work on C++, first called C with Classes, and he headed the Large-scale Programming Research department there from its creation until late 2002, becoming a Bell Labs fellow in 1993. He then held a chair in computer science at Texas A and M University from 2002 to 2014, worked as a technical fellow at Morgan Stanley in New York from 2014 to 2022, and since 2022 has been a full professor of computer science at Columbia University.