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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.
Interviewed by John Mashey on 2005-02-08 in Mountain View, CA © Computer History Museum At Bell Laboratories in 1977, Ken Thompson (best known as the co-creator of the Unix operating system)...
B is a programming language developed at Bell Labs circa 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. B was derived from BCPL, and its name may possibly be a contraction of BCPL. Thompson's coworker Dennis Ritchie speculated that the name might be based on Bon, an earlier, but unrelated, programming language that Thompson designed for use on Multics.
Ken Thompson is an American computer science pioneer and the principal inventor of the 'UNIX' operating system. He proved his genius at 'Bell Labs,' where he designed and implemented the original 'UNIX' operating system, regarded as one of the bedrocks of modern 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.
Kenneth lane Thompson was born on 4th February 1943 in New Orleans Louisiana, U.S. He is a computer scientist. Thompson worked for a long time at Bell Labs. He designed the original Unix operating system and also implemented it while working at bell labs. Thompson was the co-winner of the Turing award in 1983.
