Brian Kernighan

Brian Kernighan is the "K" of "K&R" or KernighanAndRitchie, authors of the classic book on the CeeLanguage, The C Programming Language. He's also done a LOT of other work over the years, almost all of it worth finding out about... maybe at: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/index.html