Barbara E. Moo

American computer scientist
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAmerican computer scientist
PlacesUnited States of America
isComputer scientist
Work fieldScience Technology
Gender
Female
BirthSouth Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, USA
The details

Biography

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++.

Interview

Quotes

  • "Abstraction is selective ignorance," -- Barbara E. Moo, Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example, Addison-Wesley, 2000. ISBN 0-201-70353-X

Quoted in Hayles, N. Katherine, "My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts,"

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