Ken Thompson

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Ken Thompson

Computer Science

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#65

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#67

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#36

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Ken Thompson's Degrees

Bachelors Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley
Masters Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Kenneth Lane Thompson 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. 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 system. Since 2006, Thompson has worked at Google, where he co-developed the Go programming language.

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Ken Thompson's Published Works

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Programming Techniques: Regular expression search algorithm (1968) (824)
The UNIX time-sharing system (1974) (668)
Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995) (486)
The UNIX time-sharing system (1978) (205)
The use of name spaces in Plan 9 (1993) (130)
UNIX implementation (1986) (128)
UNIX time-sharing system: UNIX implementation (1978) (116)
The use of name spaces in plan 9 (1992) (39)
The UNIX time-sharing system (1986) (36)
Process Sleep and Wakeup on a Shared-memory Multiprocessor (1991) (21)
The UNIX Time-Sharing System (Reprint). (1983) (12)
A New C Compiler (1990) (8)
Plan 9, A Distributed System (2014) (7)
Plan 9 C Compilers (1990) (5)
Hello World (1993) (2)
The Go programming language and environment (2022) (2)
Hello World or š±»·¼Á± ºÌÃ¼µ or (1993) (2)
Reflections on Trusting Trust To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software. (1984) (1)
After All This Time (2019) (1)
The UNIX Time-Sharing System (Abstract). (1973) (0)
Distributed computer system (1991) (0)
Hello World or ± » · 1⁄4 Á ± o ÌÃ 1⁄4 μ or (2007) (0)
Systeme informatique reparti (1991) (0)
The Unix Time-Sharing System (1974) (2021) (0)
CPU CPUFile File Internet Gateway Gateway Term Term Term Term Ethernet Fiber Network (2007) (0)

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Ken Thompson?

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University of California, Berkeley

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