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Bjarne Stroustrup

Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)

  • Audience4.6K
  • Fame73.2
  • Momentum7.6
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  • Audience4.6K
  • Fame73.2
  • Momentum7.6
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Born 1950 · age 76
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    Born 1950
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Updated 2026-06-21

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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Momentum7.6
Historical25.1
Now attention6.0
Source confidence75.0
Completeness75.0
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