As an undergraduate, Rob Pike first read Brian Kernighan's book on the C programming language while home sick from classes at the University of Toronto. "I lay in bed and I read it cover to cover," ...

Brain Kernighan，加拿大计算机科学家，曾就职于贝尔实验室，目前为普林斯顿大学教授。他曾参与 Unix 的研发，也是 AMPL 与 AWK 的共同创造者之一，他和 Dennis Ritchie 共同写作了 C 语言的第一本著作《C 程序设计语言》，他是大名鼎鼎的 K & R 里面的 K，当然也是 AWK ...

If you have ever looked at C as a programming language then you have probably seen or read, like I did, “The C Programming Language” by Brian Kernighan (Fig. 1) and Dennis Ritchie. It probably did ...

Narayanan Krishnaswami escaped from the cubicle police after 15 years in IT. He has been playing videogames since the days of the ZX Spectrum, when software came on tape casettes through the wonder ...

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There was an interesting tidbit buried in a Computerphile video released last week (below the break), featuring professors [David Brailsford] and [Brian Kernighan] having a chat over coffee. Among ...

If you’re on the US East Coast, you should head on over to Wall, NJ and check out the Vintage Computer Festival East. After all, [Brian Kernighan] is going to be there. Yes, that [Brian Kernighan].

Dennis Ritchie, the man who created C and helped create Unix, passed away on October 12. Shishir Prasad speaks to Brian Kernighan, Ritchie Advisory Alert: It has come to our attention that certain ...

Brian Kernighan, a professor of computer science, wants to help everyone, regardless of their math background, navigate the dazzling array of numbers flung around by journalists, advertisers and ...