Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. He coauthored 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 cocreated AWK, the text processing language used by Linux folks like myself. He codesigned AMPL, an algebraic modeling language for largescale optimization.

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Brian's website: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/
Unix: A History and a Memoir (book): https://amzn.to/3fFJ1yM
Understanding the Digital World (book): https://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 Moore's law
1:32:54 Computers in our world
1:40:37 Life

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