Nationality USA Name Andrew Koenig Role Programmer | Occupation Computer Scientist Spouse(s) Barbara E. Moo | |
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Born June 1952 New York, New York, U.S. Known for Computer Science, C++, computer programming, author; the "Koenig Lookup" Books Accelerated C++: Practical, C Traps and Pitfalls, Ruminations on C++: A Decade o, Ruminations on C++: Reflectio | ||
Andrew Richard Koenig ( [ˈkøːnɪç]; born June 1952) is a former AT&T and Bell Labs researcher and programmer. He is the author of C Traps and Pitfalls, co-author (with Barbara Moo) of Accelerated C++ and Ruminations on C++, and his name is associated with argument-dependent name lookup, also known as "Koenig lookup". He served as the Project Editor of the ISO/ANSI standards committee for C++, has authored over 150 papers on C++, and is listed as inventor on four patents. He is also a member of both American Mensa and Triple Nine Society.
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Early life and career
Koenig was born in New York City, and is the son of the physicist, Dr. Seymour H. Koenig, a former director of the IBM Watson Laboratory, and Harriet Koenig, an author and collector of Native American Indian art.
He graduated from The Bronx High School of Science in 1968 and went on to receive a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree from Columbia University in New York. He was a prominent member of the Columbia University Center for Computing Activities (CUCCA) in the late 1960s and 1970s. He wrote the first e-mail program used at the university.
In 1977, he joined the technical staff of Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, from which he later retired.
The first book he authored, in 1987, C Traps and Pitfalls, had been motivated by his prior paper and work, mostly as a staff member at Columbia University, on a different computer language, PL/I. In 1977, as a recently hired staff member at Bell Labs, he presented a paper called "PL/I Traps and Pitfalls" at a SHARE meeting in Washington, D.C.