Bjarne Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++. He is a founding member of the ISO C++ standards committee and a major contributor to modern C++. He worked at Bell Labs and is now a managing director in Morgan Stanley's technology division. He is also a visiting professor at Columbia University and a distinguished research professor at Texas A&M University. He is a member of the USA National Academy of Engineering, an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.