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Ken Thompson
Unix co-creator
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. Other notable contributions included his work on regular expressions and early computer text editors QED and ed, the definition of the UTF-8 encoding, and his work on computer chess that included the creation of endgame… More on Wikipedia →
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Videos (5)
UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use (Bell Labs)
Oral History: Ken Thompson on Co-creating Unix, C’s Origins, and the Go Programming Language
Pushing the Limits of Technology: The Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie Story
UNIX memoir, in first person - Ken Thompson
VCF East: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan
Related concepts (8)
B (programming language)
B is a programming language developed at Bell Labs circa 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
Belle (chess machine)
Belle is a chess computer that was developed by Joe Condon (hardware) and Ken Thompson (software) at Bell Labs. In 1983, it was the first machine to achieve master-level…
C (programming language)
C is a general-purpose programming language created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie. By design, C gives the programmer relatively direct access to the features of the typi…
Grep
grep is a command-line utility for searching text for lines that match a regular expression. Its name comes from the ed command g/re/p, which has the same effect. grep wa…
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Plan 9 from Bell Labs is an operating system designed by the Computing Science Research Center (CSRC) at Bell Labs in the mid-1980s, built on the UNIX concepts first deve…
Thompson's construction
In computer science, Thompson's construction algorithm, also called the McNaughton–Yamada–Thompson algorithm, is a method of transforming a regular expression into an equ…
Unix
Unix is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, the development of which started in 1969 at the Bell Labs…
UTF-8
UTF-8 is a character encoding standard used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from Unicode Transformation Format – 8-bit.…