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Brian Kernighan

Professor of Computer Science

Website: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/

Email: bwk@Princeton.EDU

Office: Computer Science Building, Room 311

Phone: 609-258-2089

Research interests: AMPL modeling language for mathematical optimization; scripting languages

Brian Kernighan

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    Computing and Network Systems

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