2 Computer Science Profs + 1 Room + 30 Minutes of Conversation = Geek Gold

Professor Brian Kernighan is computing heavyweight : heworked at Bell Labs , help train Unix and was one of two authors of the C scheduling oral communication . Here , he talks with one of the UK ’s frontmost calculator science professors , Professor David Brailsford . Time to geek out .

Yes , it ’s 30 minutes long . Yes , Brailsford is n’t quite a chat show host . But that does n’t really matter : Kernighan talks about all kinds of stuff , include Bell Labs , writing coding languages , open reference and computing gadget graphic . My personal favorite anecdote : he once ignored a conference call curing - up to discuss the solution of a problem to just … solve the problem instead , because it was “ so easy . ” Nice employment .

It ’s one to have play in the setting rather than watching all the way through , but it ’s nice to heed to .