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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.
- American
- Computer science
- University of California, Berkeley (B.S., 1965; M.S., 1966)
Jan 31, 2024 · 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 systems theory and specifically for the ...
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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.
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 ...
Kenneth L. Thompson is a researcher and co-creator of Unix, the first portable operating system that supports distributed computing. He also works on programming languages, computer games, voice and data programs, and distributed systems. He has received several awards, including the IEEE Computer Society’s Tsutomu Kanai Award and the National Medal of Technology.
Jan 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.
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.