Ken Thompson (computer programmer) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-13

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00:00:57 1 Biography
00:01:06 1.1 Early life
00:01:32 1.2 1960s
00:04:02 1.3 1970s
00:06:23 1.4 1980s
00:07:40 1.5 1990s
00:08:23 1.6 2000s
00:09:28 2 Awards
00:09:37 2.1 National Academy of Engineering
00:10:05 2.2 Turing Award
00:10:45 2.3 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
00:11:14 2.4 Fellow of the Computer History Museum
00:11:40 2.5 National Medal of Technology
00:12:19 2.6 Tsutomu Kanai Award
00:12:48 2.7 Japan Prize
00:13:10 3 See also



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Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943), commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science. Having worked at Bell Labs for most of his career, Thompson designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C programming language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating systems. Since 2006, Thompson has worked at Google, where he co-invented the Go programming language.
Other notable contributions included his work on regular expressions and early computer text editors QED and ed, the definition of the UTF-8 encoding, his work on computer chess that included creation of endgame tablebases and the chess machine Belle.