Stroustrup Videos

Modified February 27, 2021

Here is a collection of my recorded talks and interviews in roughly reverse chronlogical order:

• C++: an invisible foundation. A short talk plus a Q&A; with the ACM student chapter at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey. February 2021.

• A talk for IDA (A professional organization for Danish engineers): The Continuing Evolution of C++. The introduction is in Danish, but the talk itself is in English. The talk is in two 45-minute talks (plus Q&A;) part 1 and part 2. October 2020.
• A short introduction to the aims and status of modern C++. Arhus University, Computer Science Department seminar. October 2020.
• The Beauty and Power of "Primitive" C++. Cppcon 2020 Opening Keynote. September 2020.
• Q&A; Session for the C++ Russia 2020 conference. August 2020.
• C++: An invisible foundation. A short talk and a Q&A; for the Angolan association of programmers. August 2020.
• Interview and Q&A; with Bjarne Stroustrup. C++ Russia 2020 conference hosted by the Russian C++ Users' Group. July 2020.
• PLDI 2020 AMA. hosted by John Regehr. Written answers to follow-up questions. June 2020.
• What is C++ and why?. From a fundraiser "Dev Around the Sun" for Liveaid. June 2020.
• Building the unexpected: C++, Pt 1 and Pt 2. interview of Bjarne Stroustrup by Gavin Clarke for The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. May 2020.
• C++20 Generic Programming. C++ Meetup Prague. February 2020.

• C++ Core Guidelines Project. A short (14 minute) keynote and the 2019 NYC FINOS open-source conference. I'm off to a slow start because I was just told that I had 15 minutes, rather than the expected 45. November 2019.
• From C to C++: 1979-2019. From the Unix50 Celebration at Nokia Bell Labs: "Unix50 - Unix Today and Tomorrow." October 1979. My talk starts at 18:50 after Brian Kernighan's talk about "The little languages of Unix".
• A personal view of the evolution of C++. A talk aimed at educated non-programmers at Churchill College Cambridge. September 2019.
• C++20: C++ at 40. Cppcon 2019 Opening Keynote. September 2019.
• A conversation with Bjarne Stroustrup. An interview of Bjarne by Lex Fridman from MIT. July 2019.

  Lex prepared some clips that can be viewed separately from the complete (and long) interview:

  • C++ Concepts - Constraints on Template Parameters.
  • C++ Zero-Overhead Principle and Object-Oriented Programming.
  • C++ Implementations - Clang, GCC, Microsoft, and EDG.
  • Deep Learning, Software 2.0, and Fuzzy Programming.
  • Learn More than One Programming Language.
  • Simplification is the Key to Reliability and Efficiency in Code.
  • Journey to C++ from Fortran, Algol, Simula, and C.
  • Recognizing beautiful code.
  • Constructors, Destructors, and Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII).
• Interview 40 years of C++ by David Silver from Udacity. April 2019.
• C++ An invisible foundation. Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS): Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science. April 2019.
• A brief interview in connection with the Doctor Causa Honoris ceremony in The University of Carlos III in Madrid. 3:38 minutes. January 2019.
• Doctor Causa Honoris ceremony in The University of Carlos III in Madrid. Prof. J-Daniel Garcia-Sanchez intoduces me (Laudatio): 40:54. My speech (Lectio Magistralis) on language design for non-language geeks: 51:00. January 2019.
• The continuing evolution of C++. University Carlos III Madrid CS department. January 2019.
• Concepts: The future of generic programming (the future is here). University Carlos III Madrid CS department. January 2019.
• No littering!. Talk to Madrid C++ users groups. January 2019.

• A C++ conversation with David Intersimone December 2018.
• Jon Kalb and Phil Nash: CppChat with Bjarne Stroustrup. November 2018.
• Cpp.chat Episode #44 with Bjarne Stroustrup. November 2018.
• Steve Carroll for Channel-9: An interview with Bjarne Stroustrup and Gabriel Dos Reis at CppCon 2018 about concepts, modules, and the essentials for language evolution. And the story of the good ship Vasa. Channel-9 copy. September 2018.
• Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming (the future is here). CppCon 2018 opening keynote. September 2018.
• The Continuing Evolution of C++. University of Tokyo, Japan. July 2018.
• Video of the Draper Prize celebration. My acceptance speech starts at 14:30. February 2018.

• The Strachey Talk at Oxford University on the evolution for C++ from the earliest days until 2020. November 2017.
• Short video intervew for the IET's The Faraday Medal. November 2017.
• Steve Carroll for Channel-9: Interview at CppCon 2017. September 2017.
• The Learning and Teaching Modern C++. CppCon 2017 opening keynote. Channel-9 copy. September 2017.

• GSL ad hoc overview. Very ad hoc. I had 30 minutes to prepare after being told that the planned speaker on GSL had to cancel. Meeting C++. Berlin. November 2016.
• What C++ is and what it will become. Opening keynote and Q&A; at Meeting C++. Berlin. November 2016.
• "Concepts" explained in 12 minutes. Meeting C++. Berlin. November 2016.
• Short interview about the role of C++. 6 minutes. Alexandra Instituttet. Aarhus November 2016.
• What C++ is and what it will become. IDA IT (Ingenioerforeningen). Copenhagen. November 2016.
• The Driving Force Behind C++. A version on a Chinese site. An 18-minute TEDx talk in Shanghai. October 2016.
• The Evolution of C++ Past, Present and Future. CppCon 2016 opening keynote. Channel-9 copy. September 2016.
• Two talks at Budapest Technical University. A talk by my colleague Abel Sinkovic on debugging metaprograms followed by one by me on type- and resource-safe C++. Abel's talk should be compulsory watching for people who claim that we don't urgently need concepts. May 2016.
• C++ Today. An semi-technical talk to Churchill College Computer Society. Churchill is my Cambridge College. 36 minutes. May 2016.
• Simula Discussion led by Richard E. Nance with Birger M�ller-Pederson, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Ole Lehrmann Madsen. North Carolina State University. July 2016.

• Summary for the Computer History Museum Fellowship Award. For the Computer History Museum. Basically biographical, but of course with a lot about C++. 5 minutes. September 2015.
• A video interview about Cppcon and the C++ core guidelines. September 2015.
• Writing good C++14. My Cppcon 2015 keynote. September 2015.
• Object-oriented programming without inheritance. ECOOP'15 Keynote. Prague. July 2015.
• All the talks (incl. mine) from CppCon 2015. That's about 100 quality talks. September 2015.
• Oral History of Bjarne Stroustrup. For the Computer History Museum 2 hours. Transcript. February 2015.

• Make simple tasks simple. My Cppcon 2014 keynote. September 2014.
• Alexander Stepanov inroduces Bjarne Stroustrup. September 2014.
• All the talks (incl. mine) from CppCon 2014. That's about 100 quality talks. September 2014.
• An online "Event" and Q&A;. August 2014.
• Lang.Next'14 Keynote: What -- if anything -- have we learned from C++? A 68 minute talk incl. Q&A.;

• GoingNative'13 Keynote: The Essence of C++: With Examples in C++84, C++98, C++11, and C++14. A 96 minute talk incl. Q&A.;
• C++ for competitive programming. 2013 ICPC. 8 minutes

• Interview for IEEE Computer. about Software Development for Infrastructure. 15 minutes. January 2012.
• GoingNative'12 Keynote: C++11 Style. This has the vector vs. list example illustrating the value of compact, cache friendly data structures. A 90 minute talk incl. Q&A.;
• A Concept Design for C++. With Andrew Sutton. An early talk on C++ concepts. September 2012. 1 hour.

• Big Think Interview. For Big Think. 20 minutes. June 2011.
• Why I created C++. For Big Think. 5 minutes. June 2011.
• An AT&T; Tech Channel presentation of my work and its impact from their Tech Icons series. March 2011.

• A talk on C++0x at CERN, September 2009.

• Interview with EE Times for my 2008 embedded systems conference keynote, 2008.

• A C++0x talk given at University of Waterloo. Google, NYC. August 2007.
• The ACM HOPL-iii HOPL-iii videos (incl. mine). June 2007.
• A talk on C++0x initializer lists given at Google, Mountainview. February 2007.