Brian Kernighan
Brian Kernighan is a computer scientist born in Toronto, Canada (Kernighan [1], Brian W. ... He is working on application-oriented programming languages, programming methodology, and user interfaces (Brian W. Kernighan). Brian Kernighan is most well known for writing the C programming languages with Dennis Ritchie and designing Unix with Rob Pike and Dennis Ritchie. Brian Kernighan has contributed to Information Systems with his experiences at Bell Labs. Right after college Kernighan and his fellow Bell Labs engineer Dennis Ritchie envisioned an operating system that would provide large-system capability on individual user computers. While creating Unix, named after an OS project at AT&T/GE/MIT, Kernighan wrote the programming language. ... Brian Kernighan has also contributed to Information Systems with the development of the C programming languages. ... Developed in 1974, some of the best features it brought to the computer science industry are a smooth balance between expressiveness and power, a straightforward and predictable code, and versatility between large systems and individual users (Kernighan [2]).