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The presentation by John Gertner at the Charles River Museum explores how Bell Laboratories, established in 1925 under AT&T's monopoly, became a unique engine for American innovation through centralized research and development. Unlike earlier laboratories that focused solely on incremental improvem …
Lex Fridman
Brian Kernighan, a key figure in early computing and co-author of C with Dennis Ritchie, recounts the origins of UNIX at Bell Labs following the collapse of the ambitious Multics project. Around 1969, after realizing that large-scale systems like Multics were too expensive and slow to deliver on the …
Lex Fridman
In this discussion, Brian Kernighan reflects on the enduring legacy of C and his co-authored book, *The C Programming Language*, which he considers one of the most impactful works in programming history. He attributes the language's longevity to its unique combination of expressiveness and efficienc …