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Brian Wilson Kernighan (/ ˈ k ɜːr n ɪ h æ n /; born January 30, 1942) 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 .
Learn about Brian Kernighan, a professor of computer science at Princeton University and the co-author of several influential books on programming languages and systems. Find his recent books, research, teaching, and publications on his home page.
1970. An effective heuristic algorithm for the traveling-salesman problem. S Lin, BW Kernighan. Operations research 21 (2), 498-516. , 1973. 5689. 1973. AMPL. A modeling language for mathematical programming.
Brian Kernighan is a renowned computer scientist and author of several influential books on programming languages, software tools, and digital humanities. He is a professor at Princeton University, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a former head of the Computing Structures Research Department at Bell Laboratories.
The C Programming Language (sometimes termed K&R, after its authors' initials) is a computer programming book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter of whom originally designed and implemented the C programming language, as well as co-designed the Unix operating system with which development of the language was ...
- Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
- 1978
Nov 3, 2011 · Brian Kernighan: No one Thought C Would Become So Big. Dennis Ritchie, the man who created C and helped create Unix, passed away on October 12. We speak to Brian Kernighan, Ritchie's...
Aug 14, 2020 · Learn about the origins of Unix, the history of Bell Labs, and the stories behind Unix utilities from Brian Kernighan, co-author of The C Programming Language and Unix: A History and a Memoir. Read his answers to questions about grep, nroff, the Lab Scam, and more.
