Barbara E. Moo Explained

Barbara E. Moo
Birth Place:	South Bend, Indiana
Nationality:	American
Fields:	Computer Science
Workplaces:	AT&T Independent Consultant Author
Known For:	C++
Spouse:	Andrew Koenig
Alma Mater:	University of Indiana at Bloomington (BA; MBA)

Barbara E. Moo is an American computer scientist known for co-authoring several books on C++, working on an early product written in C++, and directing AT&T's WorldNet AT&T's Internet services business.

Biography

Moo worked at AT&T for 15 years, working on one of the first commercial products using C++. While at AT&T, she worked closely with C++ inventor Bjarne Stroustrup 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)