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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.
May 2, 2024 · 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.
May 24, 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.
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.
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)...
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 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 University of California, Berkeley. After graduation, Thompson and Dennis ...
May 6, 2019 · 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 Plan 9, and the...
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.
May 24, 2024 · Computer Science Pioneer. In the 1960s and ‘70s, Ken Thompson, along with Dennis Ritchie, coinvented the Unix operating system at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
