Brian Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system
- Born
- 1 January 1942, Toronto
- Age
- 84
- Birth name
- Brian Wilson Kernighan
Brian Wilson Kernighan (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 with Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan affirmed that he had no part in the design of the C language.
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