Rob Pike is a Canadian programmer who co-created the Go programming language at Google, which he joined in 2002, together with Robert Griesemer and Ken Thompson. At Bell Labs he was a member of the Unix team and worked on the Plan 9 operating system, and with Ken Thompson he co-created the UTF-8 character encoding. At Google he was also involved in creating the Sawzall language. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Disputed
Birth Year Connections
Associated With
Source Wikipedia: Rob Pike
In Field
Source Wikipedia: Rob Pike
Source Wikipedia: Rob Pike
Invented
Source Wikipedia: Go (programming language)
Source Limbo (programming language) (Wikipedia)
Source Newsqueak (Wikipedia)
Open Questions
Source Wikipedia: Rob Pike
In the Other Atlases
Nationality
Also in Geography Atlas: the nationality of this subject.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Rob Pike
Wikimedia FoundationLead section
Robert Pike (born 1956) is a Canadian programmer and author. He is best known for his work on the Go programming language while working at Google and the Plan 9 operating system while working at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team.
Introduction
Robert Pike (born 1956) is a Canadian programmer and author. He is best known for his work on the Go programming language while working at Google and the Plan 9 operating system while working at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team.
- In Field: Programming Language Theory, Lead paragraph
- In Field: Operating Systems, Lead paragraph
View the Source Wikidata: Rob Pike
Wikidata Q517764, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Wikipedia: Go (programming language)
Limbo (programming language) (Wikipedia)
Invented: Limbo (programming language), Infobox: designerQuote, Invented: Limbo (programming language), Infobox: designer
Sean Dorward, Phil Winterbottom, Rob Pike
Newsqueak (Wikipedia)
Invented: Newsqueak, Infobox: designerQuote, Invented: Newsqueak, Infobox: designer
Rob Pike
Open Questions (1 open question)
What is Rob Pike's exact birth date?
Wikipedia and the other biographical pages read for this Computing Atlas pioneer entity give only a birth YEAR (1956) for Rob Pike; no day or month is published on his own Wikipedia page, his personal site (herpolhode.com/rob), or any other source consulted in the 2026-08-29 deepen pass on this entity.
What would resolve this Rob Pike or a primary biographical source (a Bell Labs or Google staff record, a conference bio he supplied himself) publishing the day and month of his birth.
biographical researchWikipedia: Rob Pike
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.