Inventor of C++ [CeePlusPlus], head of the Large-Scale Programming Research Department at AT&T Research (http://www.research.att.com/info/bs) until 2002, now the College of Engineering Professor in Computer Science at Texas A&M University.
He answers many questions people frequently ask him here: http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html . It's an interesting read.
Author of TheDesignAndEvolutionOfCpp and TheCeePlusPlusProgrammingLanguage
A 'fake' interview where he explains the 'real' reason why C++ was created: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/I_did_it_for_you_all