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Bjarne Stroustrup

Brief Description: The designer and original implementor of C++

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Danish-born Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++, one of the most widely used languages that allows object-oriented programming. He also authored The C++ Programming Language and The Design and Evolution of C++.

Until recently he headed AT&T Labs's large-scale programming research department in New Jersey, though now he is the College of Engineering Chair Professor in Computer Science at Texas A&M University.

He retains a link with AT&T Labs Research as a member of the Information and Systems Software Research Lab.

Stroustrup was elected member of The National Academy of Engineering in 2004 and was given the IEEE Computer Society's 2004 Computer Entrepreneur Award. He is an AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellow and an AT&T Fellow. He is actively involved in the ANSI/ISO standardization of C++.

Born in Aarhus, Denmark, in 1950, he went on to study for a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Cambridge University in England (1979).

Interviewed by LinuxWorld.com in 2001, Stroustrup was candid:

LinuxWorld.com: It seems that C++ has failed in one important frontier: language advocacy. Many people still mistakenly believe that C++ is inherently slower than C, and the media, often failing to acknowledge that C++ is the most widely used general-purpose programming language, focuses on other overhyped languages instead. Where did we go wrong and what can be done to fix this?
Bjarne Stroustrup: C++ succeeded spectacularly in advocacy where it initially mattered most: getting millions of programmers to use it. Amazingly, this was achieved with no organization and essentially no resources. This may have made the C++ community complacent, definitely fragmented, and vulnerable to hostile propaganda. I suspect that the real problem is that good code is invisible -- even to its users. Consider C++ programs such as Netscape and Internet Explorer. Corporations that produce software for real-world tasks -- such as telecommunications management, engine control, and simulations -- don't advertise which languages they use. Unfortunately, that leaves the image-making to software tools vendors and academics.
C++ never had the backing of a major vendor. Every major vendor pushes -- and always pushed -- some proprietary language over C++. C++ never had marketing clout; where marketing was done, it was mostly done by organizations selling something else (such as a software development environment) that happened to include C++. Also, the C++ community suffers from the very success of C++: It is clearly "the one to beat" and in today's heavily commercialized world, a fair fight is a rarity.

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#48	Justin Hart commented on 18 Feb 2007 Vint Cerf's name is Vinton Cerf, not Vincent Cerf.
#47	pvdg commented on 9 Feb 2007 I'd begin with: N°1 : Charles Babbage (designed the first computer) N°2 : Konrad Zuse (built the first working computer)
#46	pvdg commented on 9 Feb 2007 What about Seymour Cray? Bill Gates was a "hero of i-Technology" and I didn't know? What technology did he invented?
#45	kjell krona commented on 6 Feb 2007 In your list of IT heroes, I am missing some of the important people involved in the Graphical User Interface, as first instantiated in Macintosh UI (and later was copied by Microsoft): Douglas Engelbart, who at SRI in the 60's invented, among other things, the idea of a mouse, overlapping windows, hypertext, outlining, video collaboration, and many other things that later inspired a lot of people to improve interaction with computers; Larry Tesler, who at Xerox Parc (working with Alan Kay on Smalltalk) invented among other things the modeless editor and, I believe, cut/copy/paste, and later moved to Apple and worked on the Lisa and Macintosh; Bill Atkinson, who wrote the "Quickdraw" graphics layer in Macintosh, proving that advanced bitmapped graphics was possible on a low-end processor; the orignal MacPaint, basically the predecessor to Photoshop, without which the graphical world today would be lost; and Apple HyperCard, which with its successors showed what "user programming" could mean, and accustomed people to the idea of "linking" pieces of information with clickable buttons, which subsequently exploded in the World Wide Web. - kjell
#44	Lars Arvestad commented on 6 Feb 2007 \|\| m6 commented on the 6 Feb 2007: \|\| Can someone explain to me why Jamie Z is \|\| a hero? The word "hero" should of course be used sparingly, and probably not in adjunction to "tech", but JWZ holds his place among the Big Hackers, IMHO. Some of his accomplishments, in no particular order: * XEmacs. He was one of (the?) main people making a user-friendly version of GNU Emacs. * XKeyCaps. This little application has really helped me getting a sane keyboard layout under X a few times. * Mosaic. I believe he was the main hacker on the Unix version of the first "real" browser. And one of the first employees at Netscape.
#43	fm6 commented on 6 Feb 2007 Can someone explain to me why Jamie Z is a hero? I only know him from reading his comments in the Netscape keyboard resource file when I was trying to get the browser to behave under Linux. These left me with a permanent dislike for the dude: instead of explaining the format of the file, he put in lengthy sarcastic (and misinformed) rants about the "mistakes" made by various Unix vendors in designing their keyboards.
#42	Ron Blessing commented on 5 Feb 2007 Every time I see one of the computer Hall of Fame articles in a magazine it seems to me there is always one glaring omission. I know there are many that have contributed but I feel like there are two people that deserve to be mentioned and always seem to be missed. Ward Christensen and Randy Suess, in my opinion, started what eventually led to our current Internet when they launched the first dialup Bulletin Board system called CBBS. In addition, Ward developed the first widespread file transfer protocol, XMODEM, which allowed files to be transferred error free between bulletin boards around the world. ...Ron Blessing
#41	Grady Booch commented on 5 Feb 2007 I'm quite flatted that you've numbered me among your top twenty all-time technology heroes. As for the Renaissance jazz bit, I play the Celtic harp, on which I perform a number of medieval and renaissance pieces. I once had an instructor who taught me some great improvisational skills, and thus the phrase, Renaissance jazz, for I like to do riffs off of really old themes. I think I would have been an itinerant musician or a priest if I were not doing software :-) Grady
#40	InOtherNews commented on 5 Feb 2007 Yakov Fain has devised his own version over here: http://yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com/who_are_the_heroes_of_itechno... in case anyone wants to take a look.
#39	More Nominees commented on 5 Feb 2007 There's a great supplemetary list by Mark Hinkle here: http://www.encoreopus.com/content/view/334/35/. Among the new names he adds are Jarkko Oikarinen, Bram Cohen, and Jerry Yang & David Filo, the founders of Yahoo!
#38	i-net user commented on 5 Feb 2007 Congratulaions, you have just insured that I will never willing used AJAX in any of my projects. Your pop-over add that blocks the article is annoying at best.
#37	Barry Threw commented on 5 Feb 2007 Vannevar Bush Norbert Weiner John Von Neumann Claude Shannon John Pierce
#36	kelley meck commented on 4 Feb 2007 You have to include Claude Shannon, and you might want to consider Oliver Selfridge. Shannon was the mathematician who figured information theory, and Selfridge started everything behind neural networks--which have never caught up with modal programming, but whose promise is unbounded.
#35	Lee Butler commented on 4 Feb 2007 You should also remember Michael J. Muuss. He developed "ping" and was instrumental in some of the developments of TCP/IP and Unix in the early days. He worked at the Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory.
#34	Carsten Schlemm commented on 4 Feb 2007 Jeremy, I am a bit disappointed you forgot Konrad Zuse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuse). His problem is that he doesn't have an Anglosaxon name.... Judge for yourself. Cheers, Carsten