[TUHS] Who came up with the spell check pipeline?

[Dan Cross via TUHS]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM Diomidis Spinellis via TUHS
<tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
> In Brian Kernighan's amazing VCF talk that Arnold Robbins shared
> yesterday, bwk mentions that Steve N[uancen?] came up with the famous
> spell checking pipeline: cat | tr | sort | uniq | comm
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEb_YL1K1Qg&t=1396s
>
> Anybody knows the correct name of that person?  ChatGPT only
> hallucinates many wrong ones.

As others have pointed out, it was Steve Johnson.  I wanted to mention
that he did say Steve Johnson in the video as well, though I can see
how one might (mis)hear differently; I think that's just an artifact
of the audio.

        - Dan C.