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Ken Thompson

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. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the…

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Known for
Multics · Unix · B (programming language) · C (programming language) · Belle (chess machine)
Awards
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1982) · Turing Award (1983) · Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1985) · IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (1990) · Computer Pioneer Award (1994)
Education
University of California, Berkeley (BS, MS)
Born
Kenneth Lane Thompson (1943-02-04) February 4, 1943 (age 83) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Fields
Computer science
Workplaces
Bell Labs · Entrisphere, Inc · Google

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Known for · 11
Ken Thompson → B (programming language), Belle (chess machine), C (programming language), Endgame tablebase, Go, grep, Inferno (operating system), Multics, Plan 9 from Bell Labs, Unix, UTF-8
Awards · 9
Ken Thompson → Computer Pioneer Award (1994), Harold Pender Award (2003), IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1982), IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (1990), Japan Prize (2011), Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1985), National Medal of Technology (1998), Tsutomu Kanai Award (1999), Turing Award (1983)
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Ken Thompson → Bell Labs, Entrisphere, Inc, Google
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Ken Thompson → Kenneth Lane Thompson (1943-02-04) February 4, 1943 (age 83) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
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Ken Thompson → University of California, Berkeley (BS, MS)
Fields · 1
Ken Thompson → Computer science
Website · 1
Ken Thompson → http://cs.bell-labs.co/who/ken/

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