# Brian Kernighan

> Brian Wilson Kernighan 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.

*Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/brian-kernighan

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Developer ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740))
- **Category:** Developers
- **Country:** Canada
- **Born:** 1942-01-01
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 57.9 / 100
- **Momentum:** 13.0 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 24.3 / 100
- **Now attention:** 6.3 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #68

## Platforms
- **WEBSITE**: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/

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