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Herb Sutter is a leading authority on software development. He is the best selling author of several books including Exceptional C++ and C++ Coding Standards, as well as hundreds of technical papers and articles, including the essay “The Free Lunch Is Over” which coined the term “concurrency revolution” and its recent sequel “Welcome to the Jungle” on the end of Moore’s Law and the turn to mainstream heterogeneous supercomputing from the cloud to ‘smartphones.’ Herb served as chair of the ISO C++ standards committee for a decade and is a software architect at Microsoft where he has led the language extensions design of C++/CLI , C++/CX, C++ AMP, and other technologies. He is an author and speaker, and a programming language nerd whose focus is on enabling program code to be both clean and fast. He has been writing about programming since 1993, usually about C++ or about concurrency and parallelism. He is the designer or co-designer of a number of standardized ISO C++ language and library features. He served as the chair of the Standard C++ Foundation since 2012. He is a technical fellow at Citadel Securities.