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The 2011 Prize to Thompson and Ritchie will be awarded in April. Ken Thompson is famous for Unix and C, but is also considered a computer chess pioneer. In 1979 Ken and a colleague at the Bell Laboratories decided to build a special purpose machine to play chess, using many hundreds of chips, worth about 20,000 dollars.
Childhood & Early Life. Thompson was born Kenneth Lane Thompson on February 4, 1943, in New Orleans. Thompson graduated with a bachelor of science (1965) and a master's degree (1966), both in electrical engineering and computer science, from the 'University of California,' Berkeley. Thompson has always been fascinated with logic.
Meet 2019 NIHF Inductees Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie! We are honored to have Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie join the National Inventors Hall of Fame ®.. The Invention. Co-inventors Thompson and Ritchie invented the UNIX Operating System, a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system, during the 1960s and 1970s.
Oct 23, 2023 · Ken Thompson. Ken Thompson (left) with Dennis Ritchie (right) Kenneth Lane Thompson (born 4 February 1943) is a computer scientist and winner of the 1983 Turing Award, together with Dennis Ritchie. He is notable for his work on the Unix operating system.
Ken Thompson is the original bearded Unix hacker. He has spent a career working on whatever he finds interesting, which has, at various times, included analog computing, systems programming, regular expressions, and computer chess. Hired as a researcher at Bell Labs to work on the MULTICS project, after Bell Labs pulled out of MULTICS, Thompson ...
Jun 19, 2020 · Not long after joining the Labs, Ritchie linked arms with Ken Thompson in efforts that would create a fundamental dyad of the digital world that followed: the operating system Unix and the programming language C. Thompson led the development of the system, while Ritchie was lead in the creation of C, in which Thompson rewrote Unix.
Apr 15, 2007 · Strange Loops: Ken Thompson and the Self-referencing C Compiler. By goodmath on April 15, 2007. I'm currently reading "I am a Strange Loop" by Douglas Hofstadter. I'll be posting a review of it ...
