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Brian Kernighan

Canadian computer scientist

Brian Wilson Kernighan (;[5][6] born January 30, 1942)[2] 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").[7]

Kernighan authored many Unix programs, including ditroff.

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  • He is coauthor of the AWK and AMPLprogramming languages. The "K" of K&R C and of AWK both stand for "Kernighan".

    In collaboration with Shen Lin he devised well-known heuristics for two NP-complete optimization problems: graph partitioning and the travelling salesman problem.

    In a display of authorial equity, the former is usually called the Kernighan–