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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.
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.
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)...
Kenneth Lane Thompson (born Feb. 4, 1943, New Orleans, La., U.S.) is an American computer scientist and cowinner of the 1983 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science.
Oct 17, 2019 · Ken Thompson began implementing the science fictional game, in which players guide a spacecraft through the solar system to land on various moons and planets, on a PDP-7 at the Bell Telephone Laboratory in 1969.
In the 1960s-1970s, Ken Thompson co-invented the UNIX operating system along with Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. He also worked on the language B, the operatin...
Kenneth L. Thompson, a researcher for more than 30 years at Bell Laboratories (now a division of Lucent Technologies), was named the first recipient of the IEEE Computer Society’s Tsutomu Kanai Award for contributions in the area of distributed computing system.
