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Bjarne Stroustrup

BYAR-nuh STROW-strup

Computer Scientist

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Computing Atlas. "Bjarne Stroustrup." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/bjarne-stroustrup.

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Computing Atlas. (n.d.). Bjarne Stroustrup. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/bjarne-stroustrup

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@misc{computingatlas-bjarne-stroustrup,
  author = {Computing Atlas},
  title = {Bjarne Stroustrup},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/bjarne-stroustrup},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist best known for creating the C++ programming language. He led research at Bell Labs, later taught at Texas A&M University, and has been a full professor at Columbia University since 2022; his work has been foundational to object-oriented and generic programming in mainstream industrial software.

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1950 1

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1950-12-30 1

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Danish 1

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