The convener of the ISO meetings regarding CeePlusPlusLanguage. (See TheCppStandardsCommittee.) Noted author of C++ topics, especially the ExceptionalCpp books (see CppInDepthSeries), and the GuruOfTheWeek? feature on news:comp.lang.c++.moderated . And leader of MicrosoftCorporation's VisualCeePlusPlus project.