Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award 2008

Abstract

In 1979 Stroustrup moved to the United States to work at the Computer Science Research Center of Bell Telephone Labs. Riding out the 1984 breakup of the Bell system and the 1995 breakup of AT&T, he joined AT&T Bell Labs, the part of Bell Labs that AT&T kept, where he headed up the Labs' Large-Scale Programming Research Department, keeping that position until 2002, when he joined the computer science department of Texas A&M University. The first commercial implementation was released in 1985, the year of the graphical user interface, the year that Microsoft delivered Windows 1.0, Digital Research shipped GEM, Commodore released the Amiga, Atari brought out the ST, and not long after Apple delivered the Macintosh.