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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.
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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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.
Jun 14, 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.
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.
Ken Thompson. Retired. Verified email at google.com. Computer Science. Articles ... K Thompson, H Trickey, P Winterbottom. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 27 (2 ...
