# Brian Kernighan (@brian-kernighan)

Brian Kernighan is a Princeton computer scientist, author, and former Bell Labs researcher associated with Unix tools and influential programming books.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Brian Kernighan's public record._

## Topics

- [Bell Labs](/@brian-kernighan/bell-labs.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Teaching at Princeton](/@brian-kernighan/princeton.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Technical writing](/@brian-kernighan/technical-writing.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/people/profile/bwk
- blog: https://citp.princeton.edu/people/brian-kernighan
- blog: https://www.princeton.edu/news/2016/03/10/book-new-computer-language-kernighan-guides-students-princeton-and-beyond

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "brian-kernighan", "question": "…"}`.