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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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   • Fields: Computer science

   • Alma mater: University of California, Berkeley (B.S., 1965; M.S., 1966)

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

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   Apr 5, 2024 · UNIX. computer programming language. Kenneth Lane Thompson (born Feb. 4, 1943, New Orleans, La., U.S.) 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 operating ...

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

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   Kenneth Lane Thompson is a computer scientist who developed the UNIX operating system and the B language with Dennis Ritchie. He received the ACM Turing Award in 1983 for his contributions to operating systems theory and practice. He also worked on other projects such as Plan 9, Unicode, and chess.

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   Who is Ken Thompson?

   • "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code." 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.

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   What awards did Ken Thompson receive?

   • The Japan Prize, the National Medal of Technology and the A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery are among his many honors. Ken Thompson, NIHF Inductee, and the history of C programming language, which laid the foundation for much of the world’s computing infrastructure today.

   Inductee Ken Thompson and the History of C Programming Language

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   What programming language did Ken Thompson develop?

   • 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 Plan 9 operating system. Since 2006, Thompson has worked at Google, where he co-developed the Go programming language. For other people named Ken Thompson, see Ken Thompson (disambiguation).

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

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   Feb 5, 2024 · Learn about Ken Thompson, the fellow of the Computer History Museum who co-created UNIX operating system and C programming language with Dennis Ritchie. Find out his biography, awards, and achievements in the fields of computing and software engineering.

6. 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 ...

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

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   Ken Thompson is a Distinguished Engineer at Google and a UNIX and C programming language pioneer who co-invented the UNIX operating system and the C language with Dennis Ritchie. He also developed Belle, the world champion chess-playing computer, and the UTF-8 multibyte character encoding scheme.

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

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   Oral History of Ken Thompson. Interviewed by: John Mashey. Recorded: February 8, 2005 Mountain View, California. CHM Reference number: X3091.2005. 2006 Computer History Museum. Q: I am John Mashey; I'm a trustee at the Computer History Museum. It's my pleasure to interview Ken Thompson about his involvement with computer chess over the years.

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