The US National Academy of Engineering has announced that Bjarne Stroustrup will receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering for his creation of C++ while at Bell Labs. The language C++, to put it mildly, is widely used. The prize will be formally awarded on February 20th in Washington, DC.
Here is Bjarne's home page and his Wikipedia page.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @03:49PM (1 child)
Give him the rube goldberg award.
Also, give ajit pai something, that tool definitely deserves ... something.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @04:06PM
The Ajit Prize for Net Neutrality Idiots.