Brief Description: Coinventor (with Dennis Ritchie) of Unix
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Ken Thompson's career is nowhere summarized better than at the Bell Labs Web site, where it is packed into just a few lines, as follows:
1943 -- Born in New Orleans, Louisiana 1943-1960 - Navy brat moving every few years 1965-66 -- Graduates with B.S and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley 1966 -- Joins Bell Labs Computing Research Department, working on the Multics project 1969 -- Develops UNIX* operating system 1970 -- Writes B language, precursor to Dennis Ritchie's C language 1971 -- Moves UNIX from the PDP-7 to the PDP-11 1973 -- Rewrites UNIX in Dennis Ritchie's C language 1973 -- Rewrites portions of UNIX to include Doug McIlroy's concept of pipes 1975-6 -- Visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley 1980 -- "Belle," a chess-playing computer he developed with Joe H. Condon, wins the U.S. and World Computing Chess Championships 1980 -- Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering 1983 -- Named Bell Labs Fellow 1983 -- Receives with Dennis Ritchie the ACM Turing Award 1980 -- Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Science 1988 -- Visiting professor at the University of Sydney, Australia 1998 -- Awarded with Dennis Ritchie the National Medal of Technology for the development of the UNIX system 2000 -- Retires from Bell Labs
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