Brian Kernighan
Videos
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.
The C Programming Language
Videos
The C Programming Language is a computer programming book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter of whom originally designed and implemented the C programming language, as well as c
Brian Kernighan
…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…
"Hello, World!" program by Brian Kernighan (1978)