D is for Digital: What a Well-Informed Person Should Know about Computers and Communications

Placeholder author icon
By Brian Kernighan *69

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(CreateSpace) In a user-friendly guide to computers, Kernighan makes computing understandable to non-programmers. Based on his popular Princeton class, Computers in Our World, the book explains topics such as the CPU, JavaScript, and data tracking. Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton.

Paw in print

Image
Tod Williams ’65 *67 stands in front of the Brooklyn Bridge.
The Latest Issue

July 2026

Architect Tod Williams ’65 *67 reflects on the Obama Presidential Center; rain and revelry at Reunions.