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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.
It began in 1969 when Ken Thompson discovered a little-used PDP-7 computer and set out to fashion a computing environment that he liked. His work soon attracted me; I joined in the enterprise, though most of the ideas, and most of the work for that matter, were his.
1965-66 -- Graduates with B.S and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. 1966 -- Joins Bell Labs Computing Research Department, working on the Multics project. 1969 -- Develops UNIX * operating system.
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.
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 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.
Computerrecently visited Ken Thompson at Lucent’s Bell Labs to learn about Thompson’s early work on Unix and his more recent research in distributed computing.
Ken Thompson, NIHF Inductee, and the history of C programming language, which laid the foundation for much of the world’s computing infrastructure today.
Jun 26, 2024 · Computer Science Pioneer. In the 1960s and ‘70s, Ken Thompson, along with Dennis Ritchie, coinvented the Unix operating system at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Thompson also worked on the B programming language, the 1980 world computer chess champion computer, “Belle,” the Plan 9 operating system, and the open-source programming language Go.
Kenneth L. Thompson was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation For their invention of UNIX® operating system and the C programming language, which together have led to enormous growth of an entire industry, thereby enhancing American leadership in the Information Age.
