Ken Thompson (Person)
Ken Thompson
1943 AD - 1969 AD
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.
See also
- linfo.org, Ken Thompson: A Brief Introduction
- Nokia Bell Labs, The invention of Unix
- Dennis M Ritchie, The Development of the C Language
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