Barbara E. Moo is an American

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

known for co-authoring several books on

C++ C++ (, pronounced "C plus plus" and sometimes abbreviated as CPP or CXX) is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup. First released in 1985 as an extension of the C programmin ...

, working on an early product written in

, and directing

AT&T AT&T Inc., an abbreviation for its predecessor's former name, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the w ...

's WorldNet AT&T's Internet services business.

Biography

Moo worked at

for 15 years, working on one of the first commercial products using

. While at AT&T, she worked closely with C++ inventor

Bjarne Stroustrup Bjarne Stroustrup (; ; born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer scientist, known for the development of the C++ programming language. He led the Large-scale Programming Research department at Bell Labs, served as a professor of computer sci ...

and managed the C++ development team for several years."Author Profile: Barbara Moo"
InformIT. She directed the development of AT&T's WorldNet Internet service business.

Bibliography

* Moo, Barbara; E. Josée Lajoie; Stanley B. Lippman, "C++ Primer", 2012. * Moo, Barbara; Koenig, Andrew, ''Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example'', Addison-Wesley, 2000. * Moo, Barbara; Koenig, Andrew, ''Ruminations on C++: A Decade of Programming Insight and Experience'', Addison-Wesley, 1997.

Interview

"Learning Modern C++: An Interview with Barbara Moo"
interview with Jeff Martin on February 11, 2013, ''infoq.com''.

Quotes

* "Abstraction is selective ignorance" —Barbara E. Moo, Andrew R. Koenig in ''Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example'', Addison-Wesley, 2000. (and quoted in Hayles, N. Katherine, ''My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts'', University of Chicago Press, 2005. Cf. p.58)

References

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