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Brian Wilson Kernighan （/ˈkɜːrnɪhæn/; born 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"）.
He authored many Unix programs, including ditroff.
Kernighan is coauthor of the AWK and AMPL programming 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–Lin algorithm, while the latter is known as the Lin–Kernighan heuristic.
Kernighan has been a Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University since 2000 and is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science.
In 2015, he co-authored the book The Go Programming Language.
Brian Kernighan speaks at a tribute to Dennis Ritchie in 2012 at Bell Labs.
Kernighan was born in Toronto.
He attended the University of Toronto between 1960 and 1964, earning his bachelor's degree in engineering physics.
He received his Ph.
D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1969, completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Some graph partitioning problems related to program segmentation" under the supervis...
