Peter J. Weinberger

Peter Jay Weinberger ( born August 6, 1942 in New York City ) is an American mathematician and computer scientist.

Weinberger attended Swarthmore College ( Bachelor 1964) and was in 1969 with Derrick Lehmer in mathematics ( number theory ) at the University of California, Berkeley PhD (A proof on a conjecture of Gauss on class number two). As a post - graduate student, he worked at Bellcomm Inc. from 1970 to 1976 he was assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. From 1976 he worked at Bell Labs of AT & T. In 1983 he was head of department there computer science research and in 1990 director of the Software and Systems Research Labs.

He became famous for his work at Bell Labs, where he together with Alfred V. Aho in 1977 and Brian W. Kernighan the Awk programming language designed (the " W" in AWK represents Weinberger).

Since 2003 he works for Google Inc.

Works

  • Alfred V. Aho with Brian W. Kernighan and: The AWK Programming Language. Addison-Wesley, 1988, ISBN 0 - 201-07981 -X
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