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PLDI 2020
Mon 15 - Fri 19 June 2020
Wed 17 Jun 2020 12:30 - 13:00 at Ask Me Anything live stream - Session 5 Chair(s): John Regehr

Our special guest for this session will be Bjarne Stroustrup, designer and original implementer of C++, from Morgan Stanley and Columbia University.

Bjarne Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++ as well as the author of The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) and A Tour of C++ (2nd edition), Programming: Principles and Practice using C++ (2nd Edition), and many popular and academic publications. Dr. Stroustrup is a Technical Fellow and Managing Director in the technology division of Morgan Stanley in New York City as well as a visiting professor at Columbia University. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and an IEEE, ACM, and CHM fellow. He is the recipient of the 2018 NAE Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering and the 2017 IET Faraday Medal. He did much of his most important work in Bell Labs. His research interests include distributed systems, design, programming techniques, software development tools, and programming languages. To make C++ a stable and up-to-date base for real-world software development, he has been a leading figure with the ISO C++ standards effort for 30 years. He holds a master’s in Mathematics from Aarhus University and a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University, where he is an honorary fellow of Churchill College.

Wed 17 Jun

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12:30 - 13:00
Session 5Ask Me Anything at Ask Me Anything live stream
Chair(s): John Regehr University of Utah
12:30
30m
Live Q&A
"Ask Me Anything" with Bjarne Stroustrup
Ask Me Anything
Bjarne Stroustrup Morgan Stanley and Columbia University