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Brian Kernighan

Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system

Person · Open Library

Born: 1. Januar 1942
Works: 30

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: GB
Active from: 1948-05-15

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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 30,751x
A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films
· 1991 · cited 26,466x
Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,166x
Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
· 2009 · cited 18,818x
Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
· 1977 · cited 17,896x

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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 /

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Key dates

Born: 30 January 1942

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Toronto
Occupation: university teacher
Educated at: Princeton University
Languages spoken: English language
Notable work: Q11368
Academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
Field of work: programming language

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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".