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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

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 1,053,427 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Brian Kernighan is the 38th most popular computer scientist (up from 42nd in 2019), the 122nd most popular biography from Canada (up from 144th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Computer Scientist.

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  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.05

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  • 4.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Brian Kernighan ranks 38 out of 201. Before him are Barbara Liskov, J. C. R. Licklider, Luigi Federico Menabrea, Peter Naur, Ken Kutaragi, and Maurice Wilkes. After him are Nolan Bushnell, Allen Newell, Jack Dorsey, Frances E. Allen, Don Norman, and Leslie Lamport.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Brian Kernighan ranks 185. Before him are Prince Alexandre of Belgium, Henri Pescarolo, Charles Konan Banny, Milton Nascimento, Rupert Sheldrake, and Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino. After him are Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat, Mario Terán, Marta Kubišová, Pascal Couchepin, Douglas Trumbull, and Neilia Hunter Biden.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Brian Kernighan ranks 122 out of 1,350. Before him are Catherine O'Hara (1954), Joanna Shimkus (1943), Jean Chrétien (1934), David Morrell (1943), Bonar Law (1858), and William Osler (1849). After him are Gerald Bull (1928), Wilfrid Laurier (1841), Paul Martin (1938), Gil Evans (1912), Shania Twain (1965), and Evangeline Lilly (1979).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Canada

Among computer scientists born in Canada, Brian Kernighan ranks 1. After him are James Gosling (1955), Alfred Aho (1941), John Draper (1943), Kenneth E. Iverson (1920), Rob Pike (1956), and Maria Klawe (1951).

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