Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. He co-authored the C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie (creator of C) and has written a lot of books on programming, computers, and life including the Practice of Programming, the Go Programming Language, his latest UNIX: A History and a Memoir. He co-created AWK, the text processing language used by Linux folks like myself. He co-designed AMPL, an algebraic modeling language for large-scale optimization.

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Understanding the Digital World (book): amzn.to/30ktBJI

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OUTLINE:
0:00 — Introduction
4:24 — UNIX early days
22:09 — Unix philosophy
31:54 — Is programming art or science?
35:18 — AWK
42:03 — Programming setup
46:39 — History of programming languages
52:48 — C programming language
58:44 — Go language
1:01:57 — Learning new programming languages
1:04:57 — Javascript
1:08:16 — Variety of programming languages
1:10:30 — AMPL
1:18:01 — Graph theory
1:22:20 — AI in 1964
1:27:50 — Future of AI
1:29:47 — Moores law
1:32:54 — Computers in our world
1:40:37 — Life

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