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  1. computerhistory.org › profile › ken-thompsonKen Thompson - CHM

    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.

  2. www.computerhistory.org › profile › kenneth-thompsonKen Thompson - CHM

    Jun 14, 2024 · Computer Science Pioneer. In the 1960s and ‘70s, Ken Thompson, along with Dennis Ritchie, coinvented the Unix operating system at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Thompson also worked on the B programming language, the 1980 world computer chess champion computer, “Belle,” the Plan 9 operating system, and the open-source programming language Go.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › C_(programming_language)C (programming language) - Wikipedia

    19 hours ago · Dennis Ritchie (right), the inventor of the C programming language, with Ken Thompson. C is an imperative, procedural language in the ALGOL tradition. It has a static type system. In C, all executable code is contained within subroutines (also called "functions", though not in the sense of functional programming).

  4. klse.i3investor.com › web › blogUNIX co-creator Ken Thompson is a… what user now?

    Jun 14, 2024 · Last weekend, the SCALE conference came back from the pandemic with a bang: Ken Thompson as keynote speaker. In the Q&A at the end of his talk, Thompson made a surprising confession. Bell Labs researcher Ken Thompson was one of the developers of MULTICS, the ancestor of and inspiration for UNIX .

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Kenneth_CKenneth C. Griffin - Wikipedia

    2 days ago · Kenneth Cordele Griffin (born October 15, 1968) is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder, chief executive officer, co-chief investment officer, and 80% owner of Citadel LLC, a multinational hedge fund.

  6. resource-center.generalassemb.ly › blog › daddies-of-techDaddies of Tech: Cheers to Dads Who've Shaped Our Digital World

    Jun 16, 2024 · Ken Thompson: The Unix Pioneer and Beloved Father. Ken Thompson, often affectionately known as one of the founding fathers of modern computing, co-created the Unix operating system, which has become a cornerstone of contemporary software engineering.

  7. cs50.harvard.edu › law › 2019Lecture 10 - CS50's Computer Science for Lawyers

    3 days ago · This paper was written in 1984 by Ken Thompson, one of the inventors of the Unix operating system. Thompson begins this paper discussing a computer program that can reproduce itself, typically called a quine in computer science.