BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Professor and College of Engineering Endowed Chair in Computer Science

Email: bs@cs.tamu.edu
Phone: 979-845-4094
Office: HRBB 517
http://parasol.tamu.edu/people/bs
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/homepage.html

Ph.D. Computer Science, Cambridge University, England, 1979
Cand.Scient. (Masters) Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 1975

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Distributed systems, software development tools, design, programming and programming languages, founding member of the ISO C++ standards committee

SELECTED RESEARCH SUPPORT

DOE "SmartApps: Middleware for Adaptive Applications on Reconfigurable Platforms," 11/1/2004-10/31/2007.

ITR/NGS: STAPL: "A Software Infrastructure for Computational Biology and Physics," National Science Foundation, 11/2003-10/2006.

AWARDS

Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award, 2008

TEES Fellow, College of Engineering, Texas A&M, 2007

William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement, 2005

National Academy of Engineering, 2004

IEEE Computer Society 2004 Computer Entrepreneur Award

AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellow

AT&T Fellow

ACM Fellow

IEEE Fellow

Named one of "the 20 most influential people in the computer industry in the last 20 years" by BYTE magazine, 1995

ACM Grace Murray Hopper award for early work on C++, 1993

Named one of "America's twelve top young scientists" by Fortune Magazine, 1990

EXPERIENCE

Professor and College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2003 - present

Member, AT&T Labs - Research, Information and Systems Software Research Lab, present

Department head, AT&T Labs - Research, 1996 - 2002

Department head, AT&T Bell Labs - Research, 1995 - 1996

Member, AT&T Bell Labs - Research, 1979 - 1995

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES

Chairman of the evolution working group of the ISO C++ standards committee; Member of the US delegation to the ISO C++ standards committee

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Bjarne Stroustrup, "Evolving a language in and for the real world: C++ 1991-2006," ACM HOPL-III, June 2007.

B. Stroustrup, "C and C++: Siblings," The C/C++ Users Journal, July 2002.

B. Stroustrup, "Exception Safety: Concepts and Techniques," Advances in Exception Handling Techniques, editors: Christophe Dony, Joergen Lindskov Knudsen, Alexander Romanovsky, and Anand Tripathi. Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS-2022. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 3-540-41952-7, April 2001.

B. Stoustrup, "Learning Standard C++ as a New Language," C/C++ Users Journal, pp 43-54, May 1999.

SELECTED BOOKS

Bjarne Stroustrup: The C++ Programming Language (Special Edition). Addison Wesley. Reading Mass. USA. 2000. ISBN 0-201-70073-5. 1029 pages. Hardcover.

Bjarne Stroustrup: The Design and Evolution of C++. Addison Wesley, Reading, MA. 1994. ISBN 0-201-54330-3. 472 pages. Softcover. (Often called D&E).