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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ken_ThompsonKen Thompson - Wikipedia

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   Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943) is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system.

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Kenneth-Lane-ThompsonKenneth Lane Thompson | Creator of Unix & B Programming ...

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   May 2, 2024 · UNIX. computer programming language. Kenneth Lane Thompson (born Feb. 4, 1943, New Orleans, La., U.S.) is an American computer scientist and cowinner of the 1983 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science. Thompson and the American computer scientist Dennis M. Ritchie were cited jointly for “their development of generic ...

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4. amturing.acm.org › award_winners › thompson_4588371Kenneth Lane Thompson - A.M. Turing Award Laureate

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   Kenneth Thompson is a computer scientist who co-developed the Unix operating system with Dennis Ritchie. He also created the B and C programming languages, the Unicode character encoding system, and the chess-playing computer Belle.

5. www.computerhistory.org › profile › ken-thompsonKen Thompson - CHM

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   May 23, 2024 · Ken Thompson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1943. He received a BS (1965) and MS (1966) in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley. In 1969, Thompson and colleague Dennis Ritchie created the UNIX operating system at Bell Telephone Laboratories. UNIX was a scaled-down version of the MIT MULTICS operating system, one ...

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7. www.invent.org › inductees › ken-thompsonInductee Ken Thompson and the History of C Programming Language

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   Ken Thompson is a pioneer of computer science and a co-developer of UNIX, a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system. He also invented the C programming language, the UTF-8 character encoding and the chess-playing computer Belle.

8. www.wikiwand.com › en › Ken_ThompsonKen Thompson - Wikiwand

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   Kenneth Lane Thompson is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C programming language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the ...

9. www.computer.org › profiles › kenneth-thompsonKenneth L. Thompson - IEEE Computer Society

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   Learn about the life and achievements of Kenneth L. Thompson, the co-creator of Unix and the developer of B and C languages. He received the Tsutomu Kanai Award, the Computer Pioneer Award, and the National Medal of Technology for his contributions to distributed computing.