Brian Kernighan

Brian Wilson Kernighan. (1942 - ). Canadian computer scientist and C expert.

Noteworthy

• Co-authored the book “The C Programming Language”.
• Co-wrote the “awk” Unix utility program.
• Devised well-known heuristics for two NP-complete optimization problems: graph partitioning and the travelling salesman problem.

See Also

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan
• Brian_Kernighan_quotes