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Ken Thompson

Software And Its Engineering

Ken Thompson is an American computer scientist who, with Dennis Ritchie, created the Unix operating system at Bell Labs beginning in 1969, and who designed the B programming language that Ritchie developed into C. Thompson and Ritchie shared the 1983 ACM Turing Award for their work on Unix; Thompson later co-created the Go programming language at Google.

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Birth Year
1943 1
Birth Date
1943-02-04 2
Nationality
American 1
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs, Systems
Regular Expression, Concepts
Source Wikipedia: Regular expression
Rob Pike, Pioneers
Source Wikipedia: Rob Pike

In Field

Operating Systems, Fields
Source Computer History Museum

Invented

Go, Programming Languages
Source Wikipedia: Go (programming language)
Unix, Systems
Source ACM A.M. Turing Award Citations
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1. Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum
  • 1997 Fellow citation
    For his co-creation, with Dennis Ritchie, of the UNIX operating system, and for development of the C programming language
  • In Field: Operating Systems
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2. Wikipedia: Ken Thompson
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Early life and education
    Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system.
  • Infobox
    Kenneth Lane Thompson (1943-02-04) February 4, 1943 (age 83), New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
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ACM A.M. Turing Award Citations
Association for Computing Machinery
  • Citation
    With Dennis M. Ritchie, for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system.
  • Invented: Unix
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Wikipedia: Go (programming language)
Wikimedia FoundationInvented: Go, History sectionView the Source
Wikipedia: Regular expression
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Regular Expression, History section
Quote, Associated With: Regular Expression, History section
Ken Thompson implemented Kleene's notation into the QED text editor around 1968
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Wikipedia: Rob Pike
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Rob Pike, Lead section
Quote, Associated With: Rob Pike, Lead section
With Ken Thompson, he is the co-creator of UTF-8 character encoding.
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