Andrew Richard Koenig (IPA:[ˈkøːnɪç]; born June 1952) is a former AT&T and Bell Labs researcher and programmer.[1][unreliable source?] He is the author of C Traps and Pitfalls and 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",[2] though he is not its inventor.[3] He served as the Project Editor of the ISO/ANSI standards committee for C++,[4] and has authored over 150 papers on C++.
Early life and career
Koenig graduated from The Bronx High School of Science in 1968 [5] 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.[6]
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.[7]
Andrew Koenig, Barbara Moo: Teaching Standard C++, Part 2. Journal of Object Oriented Programming (JOOP) 11(8): 64-67 (1999)
Andrew Koenig, Barbara Moo: Teaching Standard C++, Part 3. JOOP 11(9): 59-63 (1999)
1998
A Quiet Revolution. JOOP 10(8): 10–13, 16 (1998)
Report from Morristown. JOOP 10(9): 5-8 (1998)
A Programming Revolution in Languages Founded on Object Logic. JOOP 11(1): 13-16 (1998)
Is Abstraction Good? JOOP 11(2): 66-69 (1998)
Simulating Dynamic Types in C++, Part 1. JOOP 11(3): 76–78, 80 (1998)
Simulating Dynamic Types in C++, Part 2. JOOP 11(4): 63-67 (1998)
Why Are Vectors Efficient? JOOP 11(5): 71-75 (1998)
A Standard C++ Appetizer. JOOP 11(6): 85-87 (1998)
Andrew Koenig, Barbara Moo: Teaching Standard C++. JOOP 11(7): 11-17 (1998)
1997
C++ in the Classroom: A Look Forward. JOOP 10(1): 59-61 (1997)
Turning an Interface Inside out. JOOP 10(2): 56-58 (1997)
Which Container Should we Teach First? JOOP 10(3): 10-12 (1997)
A ++decade of C++. JOOP 10(4): 20–23, 34 (1997)
Inheritance and Abbreviations. JOOP 10(5): 6–9, 21 (1997)
Report from London. JOOP 10(6): 11-16 (1997)
Compile-Time Type Computation. JOOP 10(7): 11-14 (1997)
The Importance — and Hazards — of Performance Measurement. JOOP 9(8): 58-60 (1997)
Iterator Iterators and Temporal Sequences. JOOP 9(9): 66–67, 71 (1997)
1996
Idiomatic Design — invited talk for ACM OOPSLA '95; published in Post-conference Proceedings and reprinted in abridged form in CACM Vol. 39, No. 11, November, 1996.
Function Adaptors. JOOP 8(8): 51-53 (1996)
Compatibility vs. Progress. JOOP 8(9): 48-50 (1996)
Generic Input Iterators. JOOP 9(1): 72-75 (1996)
Memory Allocation and C Compatibility. JOOP 9(2): 42–43, 54 (1996)
C++ as a First Language. JOOP 9(3): 47-49 (1996)
Design, Behavior, and Expectation. JOOP 9(4): 79-81 (1996)
Andrew Koenig, Bjarne Stroustrup: Foundations for Native C++ Styles Softw., Pract. Exper. 25(S4): S4/45-S4/86 (1995)
1994
An anecdote about ML type inference, USENIX Very High Level Languages Symposium, October 1994, Santa Fe
When to Write Buggy Programs. JOOP 7(1): 80-82 (1994)
Libraries in Everyday Use. JOOP 7(2): 68–72, 80 (1994)
Templates and Generic Algorithms. JOOP 7(3): 45-47 (1994)
Surrogate Classes in C++. JOOP 7(4): 71–72, 80 (1994)
Generic Iterators. JOOP 7(5): 69-72 (1994)
Thoughts on Abstraction. JOOP 7(6): 68-70 (1994)
1992
Space-Efficient Trees in C++. C++ Conference 1992: 117-130
1991
Andrew Koenig, Thomas A. Cargill, Keith E. Gorlen, Robert B. Murray, Michael Vilot: How Useful is Multiple Inheritance in C++? C++ Conference 1991: 81-84
1990
Andrew Koenig, Bjarne Stroustrup: Exception Handling for C++. C++ Conference 1990: 149-176
1988
Associative arrays in C++, Summer 1988 Usenix Conference (pp. 173–186), San Francisco
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