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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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Published Papers

Password security: a case history (1979) (1011)
Programming Techniques: Regular expression search algorithm (1968) (799)
The UNIX time-sharing system (1974) (693)
Reflections on trusting trust (1984) (545)
Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995) (483)
The UNIX time-sharing system (1978) (201)
Retrograde Analysis of Certain Endgames (1986) (187)
UNIX implementation (1986) (128)
The use of name spaces in Plan 9 (1993) (127)
UNIX time-sharing system: UNIX implementation (1978) (116)
COMPUTER CHESS STRENGTH (1982) (86)
6-Piece Endgames (1996) (69)
The use of name spaces in plan 9 (1992) (43)
BELLE: chess hardware (1988) (38)
The UNIX time-sharing system (1986) (33)
BELLE CHESS HARDWARE (1982) (29)
A special purpose computer for molecular dynamics calculations (1990) (26)
Process Sleep and Wakeup on a Shared-memory Multiprocessor (1991) (22)
The UNIX Time-Sharing System (Reprint). (1983) (15)
Where Do Camels Belong (2014) (9)
A New C Compiler (1990) (8)
Plan 9, A Distributed System (2014) (6)
Plan 9 C Compilers (1990) (5)
Bioteams: High Performance Teams Based on Nature's Most Successful Designs (2008) (5)
Knowing and believing: religious knowledge (2000) (5)
KQPKQ and KRPKR Endings (1990) (3)
Chess Endgames Vol. 1 (1991) (3)
New Results for KNPKB and KNPKN Endgames (1991) (3)
The Longest: Krnknn in 262 (2000) (3)
Hello World (1993) (2)
An Example of QPvQ (1986) (2)
Hello World or š±»·¼Á± ºÌÃ¼µ or (1993) (2)
After All This Time (2019) (1)
The Go programming language and environment (2022) (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. (1984) (1)
Release .0, The Beginning (1989) (1)
Chess Endgames Vol. 2 (1992) (1)
Fourth World Computer-Chess Championship (1983) (1)
TIX 198: Capitalization: A Different Approach (1984) (0)
Getting Published: From a Writer’s Point of View (2010) (0)
Joint Bidding Guide (2013) (0)
The evolutionary ecology of hybridization (2021) (0)
the Power of #YOU (2014) (0)
North American Computer Chess Championships 1970-1979 (1978) (0)
CLAUDE SHANNON (1916-2001): FUNDAMENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS (2001) (0)
The ACM's 16th North American Computer-Chess Championship (1985) (0)
The power of supervision. (1980) (0)
J. Philip Grime (1935-2021). (2021) (0)
Reviewers of Madroño Manuscripts 2017 (2017) (0)
US Open Computer-Chess Championship (1985) (0)
Book Reviews: Solving the Scientist Shortage (1959) (0)
The Unix Time-Sharing System (1974) (2021) (0)
To Be or Not to Be-A Textbook (1998) (0)
MICHAEL JOSEPH VALVO (1942-2004) (2004) (0)
The UNIX Time-Sharing System (Abstract). (1973) (0)
Systeme informatique reparti (1991) (0)
The Sixth World Computer-Chess Championship. Results and Games (1989) (0)
Can private companies successfully turn around a failing school (2004) (0)
Second World Microcomputer Chess Championship (1981) (0)
Hello World or ± » · 1⁄4 Á ± o ÌÃ 1⁄4 μ or (2007) (0)
Tributes to Tony Scherzer (1995) (0)
ACM'S Sixteenth North American Computer-Chess Championship (1985) (0)
Results and Games (1989) (0)
Reprint of ICCA Chapter Support Policy (1981) (0)
Distributed computer system (1991) (0)
CPU CPUFile File Internet Gateway Gateway Term Term Term Term Ethernet Fiber Network (2007) (0)
101 Things to Know About Getting Published (2012) (0)
Chess Endgames Vol. 3 (1993) (0)
1983 United States Open and Fredkin Incentive Matches (1983) (0)
Roundtable -- In Pursuit of Quality (PDF) (1999) (0)
Letter to David Levy (1983) (0)

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University of California, Berkeley

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Computer Science