CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Bjarne Stroustrup Stroustrup in 2010 Born ( 1950-12-30 ) 30 December 1950 (age 68) Aarhus , Denmark Residence New York City , New York , U.S. [1] Nationality Danish Alma mater Aarhus University (MSc) University of Cambridge (PhD) Known for C++ Awards Grace Murray Hopper Award (1993) ACM Fellow (1994) IEEE Fellow (1994) William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement (2005) Dr. Dobb's Excellence Award (2008) Dahl–Nygaard Prize (2015) Fellow of the Computer History Museum (2015) IET Faraday Medal (2017) Charles Stark Draper Prize (2018) Computer Pioneer Award (2018) Scientific career Institutions Aarhus University University of Cambridge Texas A&M University Bell Labs Morgan Stanley Columbia University Thesis Communication and control in distributed computer systems (1979) Doctora...