Andrew Koenig

Andrew Richard Koenig (; born June 1952) is a former AT&T and Bell Labs researcher and programmer. 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", though he is not its inventor. He served as the Project Editor of the ISO/ANSI standards committee for C++, and has authored over 150 papers on C++. Early life and career Koenig was born in New York City and is the son of the physicist Dr. Seymour H. Koenig, a former director of the IBM Watson Laboratory, and Harriet Koenig, an author and collector of Native American Indian art. He graduated from The Bronx High School of Science in 1968 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. In 1977, he joined the technical staff of Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, from which he later retired.