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Brian Kernighan
Sign in to saveAlso known as Brian W. Kernighan, Brian Wilson Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1. Januar 1942
- Works
- 30
Top works
- The elements of programming style
- Practice of Programming
- The Go Programming Language
- Le langage C - 2e éd.
- The C Programming language
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1948-05-15
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 35
- Total plays
- 131
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,945x
- A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films
· 1991 · cited 26,521x
- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,401x
- Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
· 2009 · cited 18,976x
- Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
· 1977 · cited 18,339x
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Quotes
- “Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.”
- “The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.”
- “Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?”
- “Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.”
- “C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.”
- “Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Brian Wilson Kernighan , ( 1942-01-30 ) 30 January 1942 (age 84) , Toronto , Ontario , Canada
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Alma mater
- University of Toronto ( BASc ), Princeton University ( PhD )
- Known for
- Unix AWK A Mathematical Programming Language (AMPL) Kernighan–Lin algorithm Lin–Kernighan heuristic The C Programming Language (book)
- Fields
- Computer science
- Institutions
- Princeton University
- Thesis
- Some Graph Partitioning Problems Related to Program Segmentation (1969)
- Doctoral advisor
- Peter Weiner
- Website
- www .cs .princeton .edu /~bwk /
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Toronto
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Princeton University
- Employer
- Bell Labs
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Q11368
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- programming language
- Official website
- kernighan.com
- Image
- Brian Kernighan in 2012 at Bell Labs 1(cropped).jpg
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1942-01-30
- Commons category
- Brian Kernighan
- birth name
- Brian Wilson Kernighan
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Brian Wilson Kernighan (/ˈkɜːrnɪhæn/; born 30 January 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. Kernighan's name became widely known through co-authorship of the first book on the C programming language (The C Programming Language) with Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan affirmed that he had no part in the design of the C language ("it's entirely Dennis Ritchie's work").
Kernighan authored many Unix programs, including ditroff. He is coauthor of the AWK and AMPL programming languages. The "K" of K&R C and of AWK both stand for "Kernighan".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brian Kernighan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.