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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ken_ThompsonKen Thompson - Wikipedia

    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.

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  3. www.computerhistory.org › profile › ken-thompsonKen Thompson - CHM

    Jun 5, 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.

  4. www.computerhistory.org › blog › the-earliest-unix-code-anThe Earliest Unix Code: An Anniversary Source Code Release

    Oct 17, 2019 · Learn about the earliest Unix code written by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie in 1970, before the system migrated to a PDP-11. Download the PDF of the source code listings and see the provisional identifications and notes.

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  6. www.youtube.com › watchOral History of Ken Thompson - YouTube

    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)...

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  7. www.britannica.com › biography › Kenneth-Lane-ThompsonKenneth Lane Thompson | Creator of Unix & B Programming Language

    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.

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  8. amturing.acm.org › award_winners › thompson_4588371Kenneth Lane Thompson - A.M. Turing Award Laureate

    Kenneth Thompson is a computer scientist who co-developed the Unix operating system with Dennis Ritchie. He also created the B and C programming languages, the Unicode character encoding system, and the chess-playing computer Belle.

  9. www.youtube.com › watchKen Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan at VCF East 2019

    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...

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