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Texas A&M Engineering's Stroustrup to receive Sigma Xi's top prize
Texas A&M Engineering's Stroustrup to receive Sigma Xi's top prize
COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup, professor and holder of the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M University, has been selected to receive the 2005 William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement from Sigma Xi, the scientific research society.
The Procter Prize is Sigma Xi's top honor and since 1950 has been awarded annually to a scientist who has "made an outstanding contribution to scientific research and has demonstrated an ability to communicate the significance of this research to scientists in other disciplines." Among the prominent scientists who have received the honor are Murray Gell-Mann, Benoit Mandelbrot, Jane Goodall and Stephen Jay Gould. Stroustrup will receive his prize and give an acceptance speech at the Sigma Xi annual conference in Seattle.
"Dr. Stroustrup is one of Texas A&M Engineering's finest scholars, and we are very proud of this prestigious award designation," said Dr. G. Kemble Bennett, vice chancellor and dean of engineering. "His research contributions are indeed making a significant impact upon computer science, and, like Sigma Xi, we celebrate his impressive accomplishments."
Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of the C++ computer programming language, the most widely used language supporting object-oriented programming. Using C++ as his tool, Stroustrup pioneered the use of object-oriented and generic programming techniques in application areas where efficiency is a prerequisite. In addition to his research, he is currently applying his expertise and communications skills to the design of a novel programming course for engineering freshmen.
His book The C++ Programming Language is the most widely read book of its kind and has been translated into 18 languages. A later book, The Design and Evolution of C++, broke new ground in the description of the way a programming language is shaped by ideas, ideals, problems and practical constraints.
Stroustrup joined the Department of Computer Science faculty in the fall of 2002 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in February 2004. He has received numerous other professional honors and is an ACM fellow, an IEEE Fellow, a Bell Labs Fellow, and an AT&T Fellow.
Stroustrup graduated from the University of Aarhus (Denmark) in 1975 with a Cand. Scient. (master's) degree in mathematics and computer science and received his Ph.D. in computer science from Cambridge University in 1979.
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