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Bjarne Stroustrup
b. 1950
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
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1950 December 30, 1950 →Biography
Bjarne Stroustrup 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.
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