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Brian Wilson Kernighan 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. Kernighan's name became widely known through co-authorship of the first book on the C programming language (The C
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See moreKernighan was born in Toronto. He attended the University of Toronto between 1960 and 1964, earning his bachelor's degree in engineering physics. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University in
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See moreKernighan has held a professorship in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton since 2000. Each fall he teaches a course called "Computers in Our World", which introduces the fundamentals of computing to non-majors.
Kernighan was the...
See more• The Elements of Programming Style (1974, 1978) with P. J. Plauger
• Software Tools (1976) with P. J. Plauger
• The C Programming Language (1978, 1988) with Dennis M. Ritchie...
See more• Brian Kernighan's home page at Bell Labs
• "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language" — By Brian Kernighan, AT&T Bell...
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