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Texas A&M Engineering's Stroustrup elected IEEE Fellow
Stroustrup elected IEEE Fellow
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 elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to computer science, including creating the C++ programming language.
Stroustrup was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in February 2004. He joined the Department of Computer Science faculty in the fall of 2002. He 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.
Stroustrup's 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.
"The Department of Computer Science is fortunate to have Dr. Stroustrup as a member of our faculty," said Dr. Valerie Taylor, head of the Department of Computer Science and holder of the Royce E. Wisenbaker Professorship I. "Given his contributions to object-oriented programming, he is definitely deserving of the distinction of IEEE Fellow, which is awarded only to a person who has distinguished himself with an extraordinary record of accomplishments."
Stroustrup received the 2004 Computer Entrepreneur Award from the IEEE Computer Society for "pioneering the development and commercialization of industrial-strength, object-oriented programming technologies, and the profound changes they fostered in business and industry." In 1995, he was named one of the 20 most influential people in the computer industry in the last 20 years by BYTE magazine. He also has been named an AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellow and an AT&T Fellow. He received the 1993 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Grace Murray Hopper award for his early work on C++ and is an ACM 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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