Ken Thompson | Academic Influence

Why Is Ken Thompson Influential?

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.

Ken Thompson's Published Works

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Published Papers

Password security: a case history (982)
Programming Techniques: Regular expression search algorithm (802)
The UNIX time-sharing system (754)
Plan 9 from Bell Labs (478)
Reflections on trusting trust (419)
The UNIX time-sharing system (214)
Reflections on trusting trust (207)
Retrograde Analysis of Certain Endgames (186)
UNIX implementation (128)
UNIX time-sharing system: UNIX implementation (120)
The use of name spaces in Plan 9 (119)
COMPUTER CHESS STRENGTH (86)
6-Piece Endgames (69)
The use of name spaces in plan 9 (45)
BELLE: chess hardware (39)
BELLE CHESS HARDWARE (30)
The UNIX time-sharing system (26)
A special purpose computer for molecular dynamics calculations (26)
Process Sleep and Wakeup on a Shared-memory Multiprocessor (21)
The UNIX Time-Sharing System (Reprint). (15)
Where Do Camels Belong (9)
A New C Compiler (8)
Plan 9, A Distributed System (6)
Reflections on trusting trust (6)
Plan 9 C Compilers (5)
Knowing and believing: religious knowledge (5)
Bioteams: High Performance Teams Based on Nature's Most Successful Designs (5)
New Results for KNPKB and KNPKN Endgames (3)
The Longest: Krnknn in 262 (3)
Chess Endgames Vol. 1 (3)
KQPKQ and KRPKR Endings (3)
Hello World (2)
The UNIX time-sharing system (2)
An Example of QPvQ (2)
Hello World or š±»·¼Á± ºÌÃ¼µ or (2)
After All This Time (1)
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. (1)
Chess Endgames Vol. 2 (1)
Release .0, The Beginning (1)
Fourth World Computer-Chess Championship (1)
Letter to David Levy (0)
Book Reviews: Solving the Scientist Shortage (0)
Results and Games (0)
Stuart Hall at the Open University (0)
ACM'S Sixteenth North American Computer-Chess Championship (0)
Systeme informatique reparti (0)
Distributed computer system (0)
Joint Bidding Guide (0)
North American Computer Chess Championships 1970-1979 (0)
CPU CPUFile File Internet Gateway Gateway Term Term Term Term Ethernet Fiber Network (0)
Results and Games (0)
Chess Endgames Vol. 3 (0)
The evolutionary ecology of hybridization (0)
The ACM's 16th North American Computer-Chess Championship (0)
Reprint of ICCA Chapter Support Policy (0)
The Unix Time-Sharing System (1974) (0)
Can private companies successfully turn around a failing school (0)
Reviewers of Madroño Manuscripts 2017 (0)
101 Things to Know About Getting Published (0)
1983 United States Open and Fredkin Incentive Matches (0)
The UNIX Time-Sharing System (Abstract). (0)
TIX 198: Capitalization: A Different Approach (0)
the Power of #YOU (0)
The power of supervision. (0)
CLAUDE SHANNON (1916-2001): FUNDAMENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS (0)
The Sixth World Computer-Chess Championship. Results and Games (0)
Roundtable -- In Pursuit of Quality (PDF) (0)
MICHAEL JOSEPH VALVO (1942-2004) (0)
US Open Computer-Chess Championship (0)
Hello World or ± » · 1⁄4 Á ± o ÌÃ 1⁄4 μ or (0)
Tributes to Tony Scherzer (0)
J. Philip Grime (1935-2021). (0)
Second World Microcomputer Chess Championship (0)
The Fifth World Computer-Chess Championship (0)
To Be or Not to Be-A Textbook (0)
Getting Published: From a Writer’s Point of View (0)

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Ken Thompson?

Ken Thompson is affiliated with the following schools:

University of California, Berkeley

Ken Thompson's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

Computer Science