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Brian Wilson Kernighan (/ ˈ k ɜːr n ɪ h æ n /; [5] [6] born January 30, 1942) [2] is a Canadian computer scientist. He worked at Bell Labs and contributed to the development of Unix alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
Translations into other languages are in the works. Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security, Second Edition, March 2021 explains how computer hardware, software, networks, and systems work.
Professor Brian W. Kernighan, who earned his doctoral degree in electrical engineering from Princeton in 1969, joined the department in 2000. Before returning to Princeton, he worked for 30 years at the Computing Science Research Center of Bell Laboratories, where he was head of the Computing Structures Research Department from 1981 to 2000.
Charles Severance speaks Brian Kernighan on how C emerged from a myriad of research efforts on software portability at Bell Labs in the 1970s and became a singularly transformative technology...
Aug 14, 2020 · If you use Linux or Unix, you'll want to read this interview with Brian Kernighan about the origins of Unix, from his book 'Unix: A History and a Memoir.
With Al Aho and Peter Weinberger, he created the widely-used AWK tool that eased creation of programs to associate actions with patte4rn-matching. He spent much time on text-processing, writing ...
Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. He co-authored the C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie (creator of C) and ...
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