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Brian Wilson Kernighan (; born 1942 ) is a Canadian computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed to the development of Unix.

He is also coauthor of the AWK and AMPL programming languages.

The ' K ' of K & R C and the ' K ' in AWK both stand for ' Kernighan '.

Brian Kernighan is currently a Professor at the Computer Science Department of Princeton University, where he is also the Undergraduate Department Representative.