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Why do we have 8 bits in a byte? Professor Brailsford on the origins of the humble byte. Why Use Binary? Just what is a pipeline in the computer science sense? We asked Computer Science guru Professor Brian Kernighan Why ... BWK, Professor Brian Kernighan visited Nottingham, so Professor Brailsford couldn't resist an 'on-camera' chat about Unix, Bell ... Professor Brailsford has been toiling away on a faithful recreation of Unix co-creator Dennis Ritchie's unsubmitted PhD thesis. Professor Brailsford recalls the advent of Unix v7 and AT&T's licensing procedure. Monads sound scary, but Professor Graham Hutton breaks down how handy they can be.
Hear Brian Kernighan on how he got into programming, the successors of C and the biggest challenges... Watch Part 2 before it's ... Welcoming back the legend that is Professor Brian Kernighan! Professor Brailsford invites Brian for coffee and a chat. Summing up why Hamming's error correcting codes are regarded as 'Perfect' - Professor Brailsford explains. EXTRA BITS: ... For the past year, we've been asking this as a sound-check question. Here are the results! Professor Graham Hutton (Haskell) ... Von Neumann Architecture is how nearly all computers are built, but who was John Von Neumann and where did the architecture ...
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