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Brian Kernighan

1942 - Today

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Brian Wilson Kernighan (; born January 30, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brian Kernighan has received more than 1,123,611 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Brian Kernighan is the 48th most popular computer scientist (down from 38th in 2019), the 155th most popular biography from Canada (down from 122nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Computer Scientist.

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  • 54.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Brian Kernighan ranks 48 out of 245. Before him are Charles Bachman, Amir Pnueli, J. C. R. Licklider, Joseph Weizenbaum, John Cocke, and James Gosling. After him are Nolan Bushnell, Fred Brooks, Leslie Lamport, Geoffrey Hinton, Edwin Catmull, and Vernor Vinge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Brian Kernighan ranks 225. Before him are Oliviero Toscani, Sandra Dee, Christine Keeler, Eliso Virsaladze, Chris Sarandon, and Marco Rota. After him are Marta Kubišová, Günter Wallraff, Jorge Ben, Vladimír Dzurilla, Juan Gisbert Sr., and Björn Nordqvist.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Brian Kernighan ranks 155 out of 1,622. Before him are Joshua Slocum (1844), Wilfrid Laurier (1841), Sid Meier (1954), Donald Arnold (1935), James Gosling (1955), and Ted Kotcheff (1931). After him are Fay Wray (1907), Hayden Christensen (1981), Albert W. Tucker (1905), John Tuzo Wilson (1908), Denys Arcand (1941), and Shawn Mendes (1998).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Canada

Among computer scientists born in Canada, Brian Kernighan ranks 2. Before him are James Gosling (1955). After him are Alfred Aho (1941), John Draper (1943), Kenneth E. Iverson (1920), Rob Pike (1956), Gilles Brassard (1955), and Maria Klawe (1951).

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