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1. 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 ...

2. www.youtube.com › watchOral History of Ken Thompson - YouTube

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   Interviewed by John Mashey on 2005-02-08 in Mountain View, CA © Computer History Museum At Bell Laboratories in 1977, Ken Thompson (best known as the co-creator of the Unix operating system)...

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

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   ACM Turing Award. Lecture. Research. Subjects. Additional. Materials. Kenneth Lane Thompson was born February 4, 1943 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father was in the US Navy and the family moved often. Thompson received a Bachelor of Science in 1965 and a master's degree in 1966 in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the ...

4. www.youtube.com › watchKen Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan at VCF East 2019

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   May 6, 2019 · 294K views 4 years ago. In the 1960s-1970s, Ken Thompson co-invented the UNIX operating system along with Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. He also worked on the language B, the operating system...

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

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   Apr 2, 2024 · Ken Thompson. Computer Science Pioneer. In the 1960s and ‘70s, Ken Thompson, along with Dennis Ritchie, coinvented the Unix operating system at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Thompson also worked on the B programming language, the 1980 world computer chess champion computer, “Belle,” the Plan 9 operating system, and the open-source ...

6. archive.computerhistory.org › resources › textOral History of Ken Thompson - Computer History Museum

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   Ken Thompson: And you know it was just a big monstrous project with GE, Bell Labs and MIT to build the time sharing system that was going to end all time sharing systems. And it was hugely over-designed and wildly uneconomical. It had very unique hardware. It was a research project on about four fronts,

7. nationalmedals.org › laureate › kenneth-l-thompsonKenneth L. Thompson - National Science and Technology Medals...

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   Kenneth L. Thompson was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation For their invention of UNIX® operating system and the C programming language, which together have led to enormous growth of an entire industry, thereby enhancing American leadership in the Information Age.