Brian Kernighan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Brian Kernighan

Canadian computer scientist

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1942

Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Profession: writer, engineer, computer scientist, professor, programmer

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Brian Wilson Kernighan (; born January 1, 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 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 the "K" in 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 in the Computer Science Department of Princeton University since 2000.
He is also the Undergraduate Department Representative.