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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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\nOUTLINE:
\n00:00 - Introduction
\n04:24 - UNIX early days
\n22:09 - Unix philosophy
\n31:54 - Is programming art or science?
\n35:18 - AWK
\n42:03 - Programming setup
\n46:39 - History of programming languages
\n52:48 - C programming language
\n58:44 - Go language
\n1:01:57 - Learning new programming languages
\n1:04:57 - Javascript
\n1:08:16 - Variety of programming languages
\n1:10:30 - AMPL
\n1:18:01 - Graph theory
\n1:22:20 - AI in 1964
\n1:27:50 - Future of AI
\n1:29:47 - Moore's law
\n1:32:54 - Computers in our world
\n1:40:37 - Life