Meet The Creators Of World's Most Successful Operating System



Brian Kernighan:

Brian Kernighan also worked at Bell Labs along with Thompson, Ritchie and others and also was on the team that developed Unix. He is one of the co-authors of the first book on C programming language, along-side Dennis Ritchie and also known for innovating the term WYSIWYG. Today, Kernighan works as a professor in the computer science department at Princeton University.

Michael Lesk:

Michael Lesk worked at Bell Labs from 1970 to 1984. During Lesk’s stint at Bell Labs, he had a chance to work with the Unix development team. Some of Lesk’s primary contributions include tools for word processing and tools for compiling and networking. Lesk also wrote the Portable I/O Library and was part of the team that developed the C Language preprocessor. Later on, he left Bell Labs for research group Bellcore. From 1998 to 2002, Lesk was the head of the information and intelligent systems division at the National Science Foundation. Today, this genius works as a professor of library and information science at Rutgers University.

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