Ken Thompson
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 81 |
| Date of birth | February 4,1943 |
| Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
| Born | New Orleans |
| Louisiana | |
| United States | |
| Known for | Unix |
| B | |
| Belle | |
| UTF-8 | |
| Plan 9 | |
| Inferno | |
| Endgame tablebase | |
| Go | |
| Job | Software Developer |
| Hacker | |
| Computer scientist | |
| Awards | National Medal of Technology and Innovation |
| Japan Prize | |
| IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal | |
| Tsutomu Kanai Award | |
| IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award | |
| Turing Award | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Field | Computer science |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley |
| Games | Space Travel |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic advisor | Elwyn Berlekamp |
| Books | Roycroft's 5-man Chess Endgame Series |
| Queen and Pawn Against Queen | |
| Where Do Camels Belong? | |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 454232 |
Ken Thompson Life story
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.
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