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.
- American
- Kenneth Lane Thompson, February 4, 1943 (age 79), New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
- University of California, Berkeley (B.S., 1965; M.S., 1966)
- Computer science
Mar 17, 2023 · Bell Labs researcher Ken Thompson was one of the developers of MULTICS, the ancestor of and inspiration for UNIX. He also developed Space Travel in 1969, arguably one of the first video games, and then ported it from MULTICS to GECOS… and then to a spare PDP-7 that was knocking around the lab, in the process creating a set of development ...
Feb 9, 2023 · 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.
Ken Thompson is an American computer science pioneer and the principal inventor of the 'UNIX' operating system. He proved his genius at 'Bell Labs,' where he designed and implemented the original 'UNIX' operating system, regarded as one of the bedrocks of modern computing.
Mar 15, 2023 · The Person Who Created UNIX Has Abandoned It and Is Now Moving to Debian GNU/Linux ( Raspbian) Summary: Ken Thompson has shared incredible news; he’s moving to GNU/Linux (transcript of the excerpt above can be found below) [00:00] Audience member: ok, Ken. What’s your operating system of choice, today? Ken Thompson: I have for most of my ...
Mar 19, 2023 · The closing keynote at the SCaLE 20x conference was delivered by 80-year-old Ken Thompson (co-creator of Unix, Plan9, UTF8, and the Go programming language). Slashdot reader motang shared Thompson's answer to a question at the end about what operating system he uses today: I have, for most of my life — because I was sort of born into it ...
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