As an undergraduate, Rob Pike first read Brian Kernighan's book on the C programming language while home sick from classes at the University of Toronto. "I lay in bed and I read it cover to cover," ...

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If you’re on the US East Coast, you should head on over to Wall, NJ and check out the Vintage Computer Festival East. After all, [Brian Kernighan] is going to be there. Yes, that [Brian Kernighan].

"Digital humanities" covers a wide variety of ways in which scholars in the humanities ― literature, languages, history, music, art, religion and many other disciplines ― collect, curate, analyze and ...