[dundee] Fwd: Distinguished Lecture with Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of C++

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This may be of interest to some of you...

I'm going :-)

Mark

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From: Rebecca Hastings <harveynash at email.harveynash.com>
Date: 4 April 2014 10:12
Subject: Distinguished Lecture with Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of C++
To: mayjay at blueyonder.co.uk


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Distinguished Lecture with

*Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of C++*
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*Edinburgh*

Monday 28th April 2014, 17:30
Room G.07, School of Informatics, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
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*Glasgow*

Tuesday 29th April 2014, 17:30
Room AB.101, Robertson Trust Wing of the John Arbuthnott Building, 27
Taylor Street, Glasgow, G4 0NR
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*Event Overview*

Harvey Nash and Morgan Stanley are pleased to host two free events with
University of Edinburgh School of Informatics and Strathclyde University
School of Computing on 28th and 29th April respectively where Bjarne
Stroustrup, creator and developer of C++, will be speaking.  C++ is the one
of the world's most widely used technology languages and it has influenced
newer languages such as C# and Java as well as older languages.  Following
Bjarne's talk there will be drinks and food while you have an opportunity
to network.  This is an excellent opportunity for students and
professionals to hear from one of the most influential computer scientists
of modern times.

Spaces are limited and we anticipate demand being high for these events, so
please book early to avoid disappointment.

*About Bjarne Stroustrup*

Bjarne Stroustrup was born and grew up in Denmark and now lives in New York
City.  Early in his career he invented C++ while working at AT&T Bell
Labs.  He wrote its early definitions, produced its first implementation,
chose and formulated the design criteria for C++, designed all its major
facilities and was responsible for the processing of extension proposals in
the C++ standards committee.  Stroustrup's book, "The C++ Programming
Language", is the most widely read of its kind and he has written seven
books in total as well as countless academic publications.  To this day he
continues to take an active role in C++ standards.

Now working for Morgan Stanley in New York, he has had an impressive career
in industry and academia.  Bjarne was head of the Large Scale Programming
Research Department from its creating in AT&T Bell Labs until 2002.  Since
then he has held distinguished posts at Texas A&M University and spent
significant time in the Computer Science Departments of Cambridge, Columbia
and Princeton.  At Morgan Stanley, Stroustrup is a Managing Director in the
technology division in New York City.

Significant achievements include being elected member of The National
Academy of Engineering in 2004 "for the creation of the C++ programming
language", being the first computer scientist to be awarded the William
Proctor Prize for Scientific Achievement in 2005 and being awarded the IEEE
Computer Society's 2004 Computer Entrepreneur Award.  Additionally he has
received the 1993 ACM Grace Murray Hooper award the ACM UPE ABACUS Award an
award that is "presented to the individual who has gained professional
renown and who, over several years, has provided extensive support and
leadership for student-related activities in the computing and information
disciplines."  He has received an honorary doctorate from St Petersburg
National Research University of Information Technologies and in 2008 won Dr
Dobb's Excellence in Programming award.

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*Rebecca Hastings*
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Harvey Nash

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