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Kernighan's name became widely known through co-authorship of the first book on the C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan has said that he had no part in the design of the C language ('it's entirely Dennis Ritchie's work'). He authored many Unix programs, including Ditroff . In collaboration with and the Travelling Salesman Problem . (In a display of authorial equity, the former is usually called the '' Kernighan-Lin '' algorithm, while the latter is styled '' Lin-Kernighan ''.) Kernighan was also software editor for Prentice-Hall International. His Software Tools series spread the essence of 'C/Unix thinking' with makeovers for BASIC, FORTRAN, and Pascal - and most notably his 'Ratfor' (rational FORTRAN) was put in the public domain. He has said that if stranded on an island with only one programming language it would have to be C. The 'K' of K&R C and the 'K' in AWK stand for 'Kernighan'. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Physics from the University Of Toronto . He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University , where he has held a professorship in the department of computer science since 2000. He has on occasion revealed it was his own pun which led to the use of the name 'Unix' (initially 'Unics') for the operating system Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie were working on. SUMMARY OF ACHIEVEMENTS
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