What do you think of the legacy of awk?

What's the right tool for a job?

What is a pattern-action language?

Awk programs often start small

The Turing Award

Unix is a programmer's environment

Text Formatting

Engineering vs. Business Computations

In what text processing language will you be writing the new book?

What was it like at Bell Labs?

Early Years

Working on Multix at Bell Labs

Genesis of Software Tools

Specialized Languages

Math Mode

Moving into Management at Bell Labs

Updating the Book

C# and Java

Distributed Computing Discussion

Closing Remarks

What is the newest language you use?

What languages would you like to see created?

How do we make progress?

Extending Scratch

Future of Computer Science

Computer science basics

How to pronounce Caramel

What are your favorite books?

Reading history books

How do you see the future of programming languages?

Introduction

A Conversation with Dr. Brian Kernighan

If you could go back in time, would you have picked a different expression?

How did you get into computing?

What is the industry's responsibility in bringing up the next generation of programmers?

How do you convince students that programming is fun?

With desktop computing becoming so ubiquitous, do you think that people are now unwilling or less capable of programming for mobile devices?

Is it harder to get into development today than it was in the past?

Have you heard about GitHub Codespaces? What are your thoughts on it?

What type of IDEs and tools do you encourage students to use? And why?

What's the significance and importance of remote learning for student collaboration? How does virtual collaboration affect the current generation of students?

Is fully-remote development inevitable? What are the changes and opportunities compared to before?

Did you have much experience with remote development? Is that something you are seeing with students? And are people pushing back against office work?

What can we do to ensure that technology is a force for good?

What advice you would give to the next generation of computer science students?

Closing Notes

Intro

Introduction and educational and career background

What inspired you to pursue computing as a career?

Could you describe some of the activities that you do through your work?

What do you like most and what do you find most challenging about the activities that are part of your work

I have read that you worked at Bell labs. What was that experience like, and how did it influence your work?

How do you see operating systems evolving today?

I know that you have been involved in the development of several programming languages including AWK, and AMPL. What concerns did you have to deal with when creating these languages in terms of thinking about users, hardware demands, and performance?

I am one of the many people who has read your reference book on the C programming language. Learning programming continues to evolve. What are some considerations one needs to think about when writing educational materials for a new programming language?

What advice would you have for high school students who would like to get into computer science?

You have recently authored a new version of “Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security”. This book focuses on computing essentials. How have these key aspects of the digital world evolved in the last decades?

Where do you think computer science or computing in general is going in the future?

What's your perfect programming setup?

Programming editors

History of editors

UNIX editor

Intro

Associative Arrays

Associative Array Example

Advantages of Associative Arrays

The Internal Representation

Where is a value stored in an array?

The Hashing Function

Growing the table

Conclusion

Self-Publication

Opening Remarks

Pervasiveness

What is Software?

Fundamental Software Ideas

The bad side of universal connectivity

What does a publisher do?

What should a well-informed person know about computers?

The trade-off between simplicity and complexity

Conclusion