Brian Kernighan
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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 bec
Brian Kernighan presenting at Vintage Computer Festival East in April 2025
Brian Kernighan speaks at a tribute to Dennis Ritchie in 2012 at Bell Labs.
Ken Thompson
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Kenneth Lane Thompson is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also inve
Brian 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 (The C Programming…
Thompson in 2019
DEC PDP-7, as used for initial work on Unix