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Brian Kernighan
Computer Science Pioneer
Brian Kernighan appears on the Lex Fridman Podcast across artificial intelligence, programming, history. Lex describes Brian Kernighan as computer science pioneer.
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2020
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Lex Fridman Podcast / July 18, 2020 / Episode #109
Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming
Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. He co-authored the C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie (creator of C) and has written a lot of books on programming, computers, and life including the Practice of Programming, the Go Programming Language, his latest UNIX: A History and a Memoir. He co-created AWK, the text processing language used by Linux folks like myself. He co-designed AMPL, an algebraic modeling language for large-scale optimization.
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Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. He co-authored the C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie (creator of C) and has written a lot of books on programming, computers, and life including the Practice of Programming, the Go Programming Language, his latest UNIX: A History and a Memoir. He co-created AWK, the text processing language used by Linux folks like myself. He co-designed AMPL, an algebraic modeling language for large-scale optimization.
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Brian Kernighan
Computer Science Pioneer
Brian Kernighan appears on the Lex Fridman Podcast across artificial intelligence, programming, history. Lex describes Brian Kernighan as computer science pioneer.
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July 18, 2020 to July 18, 2020
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