Submitted by Jan Samols on Thu, 04/01/2018 - 13:30
The National Academy of Engineering has announced that Bjarne Stroustrup will receive the 2018 Charles Start Draper Prize for Engineering.
The prize has been awarded 'for conceptualizing and developing the C++ programming language'.
The $500,000 annual award is given to engineers whose accomplishments have significantly benefited society.
Bjarne, a graduate of the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology, is an Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.
