Researcher in Core 3
Distinguished Professor and holder of the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science
Computer Science
Phone: 979-845-4094
Email: stroustrup@tamu.edu
Webpage: http://www.cse.tamu.edu/people/faculty/bs
Bjarne Stroustrup is a Researcher in Core 3 at the Institute and a professor of computer science in the Department of Computer Science, Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M. Stroustrup earned his doctorate in computer science from the University of Cambridge in England in 1979. He is widely known for his development of the programming language C++. Before coming to Texas A&M, Stroustrup served as a department head at AT&T Labs from 1996 until 2002. Previously he served in the same capacity at the AT&T Bell Labs (from 1995 to 1996). His work at AT&T Bell Labs began in 1979. Stroustrup is still a member of the AT&T Information and Systems Software Research Lab today. Stroustrup’s work outside of the university includes serving as the current Chairman of the Evolution Working Group of the ISO C++ Standards Committee, and as a member of the U.S. delegation to the ISO C++ Standards Committee. Stroustrup has been honored with designation as an AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellow, an AT&T Fellow, an ACM Fellow, and an IEEE Fellow. Some of his other accolades include being named the recipient of Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award for 2008, the William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement in 2004, the 2004 IEEE Computer Society’s Computer Entrepreneur Award, and the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for early work on C++ in 1993. He was also named to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004, and was lauded as one of “America’s twelve top young scientists” by Fortune Magazine in 1990.