| Ken Thompson | … |
|---|---|
| Thompson in 2019 | … |
| Born | Kenneth Lane Thompson February 4, 1943 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BS, MS) |
| Known for | • Multics • Unix • B (programming language) • C (programming language) • Belle (chess machine) • UTF-8 • Plan 9 from Bell Labs • Inferno (operating system) • grep • Endgame tablebase • Go |
| Awards | • IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1982) 1 • Turing Award (1983) • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1985) 2 • IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (1990) • Computer Pioneer Award (1994) • National Medal of Technology (1998) • Tsutomu Kanai Award (1999) • Harold Pender Award (2003) • Japan Prize (2011) |
| Scientific career | … |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Workplaces | • Bell Labs • Entrisphere, Inc |
| Website | http://cs.bell-labs.co/who/ken/ |
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Footnotes
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“IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Recipients” (PDF). IEEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on Nov 24, 2010. Retrieved Mar 20, 2021. ↩
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“Kenneth Thompson”. www.nasonline.org. Archived from the original on Oct 21, 2021. Retrieved Jun 9, 2019. ↩