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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 ...
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 ...
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...
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.
Kenneth L. Thompson, a researcher for more than 30 years at Bell Laboratories (now a division of Lucent Technologies), was named the first recipient of the IEEE Computer Society’s Tsutomu Kanai Award for contributions in the area of distributed computing system. The co-creator of Unix and a developer of the prototype language B on which C was ...
Feb 8, 2005 · 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)...
Mar 6, 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 ...
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