Ken Thompson - Wikipedia

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. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating system. Since 2006, Thompson has worked at Google, where he co-developed the Go language. A recipient of the Turing award,[3] he is considered one of the greatest computer programmers of all time.[4][5][6]

Ken Thompson - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American computer scientist known for Unix (born 1943) For other people named Ken Thompson, see Ken Thompson (disambiguation) . Ken Thompson Thompson in 2019 Born Kenneth Lane Thompson ( 1943-02-04 ) February 4, 1943 (age 83) New Orleans , Louisiana , U.S. Education University of California, Berkeley ( BS , MS ) Known for Multics Unix B (programming language) C (programming language) Belle (chess machine) UTF-8 Plan 9 from Bell Labs Inferno (operating system) grep Endgame tablebase Go Awards IEEE Emanuel R

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