"Learn how to do it yourself. Use the mechanical aids, but learn what you’re doing. A general problem with these large language models is that they will give you confident answers that are total nonsense, and if you don’t understand what you’re doing well enough, you will not recognize what the nonsense is."

The undefeatable Brian Kernighan on the joys of teaching and the sadness of genAI.

Thanks to @aka_pugs
for the link.

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025/04/princeton-features-profiles-professor-brian-kernighan-bell-labs

#BrianKernighan #teaching #HigherEducation #AcademicChatter #noAI #ComputerScience

Teaching keeps you young, or so says Professor Brian Kernighan

Computer science professor Brian Kernighan GS ’69 left a career in emerging computer science research to pursue his passion for teaching. He shared his perspectives on the evolution of the field of computer science, his interdisciplinary approach to this work, and his advice to aspiring programmers.

The Princetonian

Die von #BrianKernighan zu Papier gebrachte Geschichte der #BellLabs in Murray Hill und des Wandels von der freien grundlageorientierten Forschung

-- aus der die besten Ergebnisse und Köpfe der #Informatik hervorgegangen sind, wie neben Ritchie und Thompson auch Hamming, Aho, Shannon und weitere --

in die anwendungsorientierte und idustrialisierte erinnert mich immer an die #GMD, die wie so viele andere Einrichtungen von größeren Gesellschaften übernommen wurde.

https://dpunkt.de/produkt/die-unix-story/

Die UNIX-Story • Buch oder E-Book kaufen • dpunkt.verlag

Die faszinierende Geschichte, wie Unix begann und wie es die Computerwelt eroberte

dpunkt.verlag
Just realised I'm as old (at least to the year of release!) as the C programming language. So many memories of programming in it as an undergraduate at St Andrews. Kernighan and Ritchie was our programming bible. https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1972/ #ComputerHistory #ComputingHistory #1970s #StAndrews #StAndrewsUniversity #programming #coding #Kernighan #BrianKernighan #Ritchie #DennisRitchie #KernighanAndRitchie #Books #Cprogramming
1972 | Timeline of Computer History | Computer History Museum

Running a few simple AWK programs on my PIC32-Unix-Box for performance benchmarking purposes.

#unix #awk #briankernighan #pic32mz #microchip http://i4cy.com/unix_pic32/

[18/01/2023]

The PIC32 Unix Box, A matchbox sized UNIX computer

A comparison between a homemade Unix computer using a Microchip PIC32MZ microcontroller, and the original 1977 Digital Equipment Corporation VAX-11/780 minicomputer.

Website by Guy Fernando

BSD 4.4 UNIX still running fine on a pic32mz. #grep command is not that slow either.
The project has even had a good word from @BrianKernighan

#pic32mz #microchip #briankernighan http://www.i4cy.com/unix_pic32/

[02/01/2020]

The PIC32 Unix Box, A matchbox sized UNIX computer

A comparison between a homemade Unix computer using a Microchip PIC32MZ microcontroller, and the original 1977 Digital Equipment Corporation VAX-11/780 minicomputer.

Website by Guy Fernando
Tonight’s retro computing YouTube viewing for us, and a computer science genius, Brian Kernighan chatting about C. I still remember dashing to the uni bookshop to get a copy of Kernighan and Ritchie’s C book. It was essential from my second year CS undergraduate degree onwards. https://youtu.be/de2Hsvxaf8M #ComputerScience #Coding #Programming #ComputingHistory #Clanguage #C #Unix #BrianKernighan #RetroComputing
"C" Programming Language: Brian Kernighan - Computerphile

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