nBjarne Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++ and the author of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++, Second Edition, and The C++ Programming Language, Fourth Edition, among others. Currently a professor at Columbia University, he has previously worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Texas A&M University, and Morgan Stanley. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including The National Academy of Engineerings Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering for conceptualizing and developing the C++ programming language. Dr. Stroustrup is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of IEEE, ACM, CHM, and Churchill College Cambridge.n