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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)
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – c. October 12, 2011) was an American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system and B programming language.
- Harvard University (BS)
- c. October 12, 2011 (aged 70), Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, U.S.
- Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie, September 9, 1941, Bronxville, New York, U.S.
Kenneth Thompson. 1943 -- Born in New Orleans, Louisiana. 1943-1960 - Navy brat moving every few years. 1965-66 -- Graduates with B.S and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. 1966 -- Joins Bell Labs Computing Research Department, working on the Multics project.
Apr 2, 2024 · 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. UNIX was a scaled-down version of the MIT MULTICS operating system, one ...
Born Feb. 4, 1943. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bell Labs colleagues Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie developed UNIX, a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system alternative to the batch processing systems then dominating the computer industry. With smartphones to supercomputers running on UNIX and UNIX-like systems, Thompson and ...
May 2, 2024 · UNIX. computer programming language. Kenneth Lane Thompson (born Feb. 4, 1943, New Orleans, La., U.S.) is an 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 ...
Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson’s creation of the UNIX operating system and the C programming language were pivotal developments in the progress of computer science. Today, 50 years after its beginnings, UNIX and UNIX-like systems continue to run machinery from supercomputers to smartphones. The UNIX operating system remains the basis of much ...
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