Brian Wilson Kernighan is a Canadian computer scientist.
16 Facts About Brian Kernighan
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Brian Kernighan worked at Bell Labs and contributed to the development of Unix alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
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Brian Kernighan affirmed that he had no part in the design of the C language.
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Brian Kernighan is coauthor of the AWK and AMPL programming languages.
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Brian Kernighan has been a Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University since 2000 and is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science.
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Brian Kernighan attended the University of Toronto between 1960 and 1964, earning his bachelor's degree in engineering physics.
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Brian Kernighan has held a professorship in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton since 2000.
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Brian Kernighan coined the term "Unix" and helped popularize Thompson's Unix philosophy.
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Brian Kernighan is known as a coiner of the expression "What You See Is All You Get", which is a sarcastic variant of the original "What You See Is What You Get".
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Brian Kernighan's term is used to indicate that WYSIWYG systems might throw away information in a document that could be useful in other contexts.
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In 1972, Brian Kernighan described memory management in strings using "hello" and "world", in the B programming language, which became the iconic example we know today.
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In 1996, Brian Kernighan taught CS50 which is the Harvard University introductory course in Computer Science.
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Brian Kernighan was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for contributions to software and to programming languages.
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Brian Kernighan was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.
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In 2022 Brian Kernighan stated that he was actively working on improvements to the AWK programming language, which he took part in creating in 1977.
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Brian Kernighan uses a 13-inch MacBook Air as his primary device.