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: 2) by turgid on Thursday January 04 2018, @04:15PM
I remember when Modula-2 was the future.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].