Birth Name:

Ken Thompson

Male

Birth Date:

Thu, Feb 04, 1943

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Age:

81

Zodiac Sign:

Aquarius

Astrology Data:

Sun

15°

Aqu

1'

About Ken Thompson

Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943) 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.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Ken Thompson, Bell Labs

• Reflections on Trusting Trust 1983 Turing Award Lecture

• Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson IEEE Computer Society

• Ken Thompson: A Brief Introduction The Linux Information Project (LINFO)

• Computer Chess Comes of Age: Photos Computer History Museum

• Computer Chess Comes of Age: Video of Interview with Ken Thompson Computer History Museum

• Reading Chess paper by HS Baird and Ken Thompson on optical character recognition

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Ken Thompson: Sun 15 Aquarius, Moon 11 Aquarius, Mercury 24 Capricorn, Venus 4 Pisces, Mars 6 Capricorn, Jupiter 17 Cancer, Saturn 5 Gemini, Uranus 0 Gemini, Neptune 1 Libra, Pluto 5 Leo, Sun Quincunx Jupiter, Sun Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Venus Sextile Mars, Venus Sesquiquadrate Jupiter, Venus Square Saturn, Venus Square Uranus, Venus Quincunx Neptune, Venus Quincunx Pluto, Mars Quincunx Saturn, Mars Square Neptune, Mars Quincunx Pluto, Jupiter Semi Square Uranus, Saturn Conjunct Uranus, Saturn Trine Neptune, Saturn Sextile Pluto, Uranus Trine Neptune

Categories related to Ken Thompson: Living people, February 4 births, Programming language designers, Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences, American computer scientists, Scientists at Bell Labs, Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering, American technology writers, Spoken articles, 20th-century American inventors, American computer programmers, National Medal of Technology recipients, 1943 births, People from New Orleans, Google employees, Turing Award laureates, UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni, Unix people, Multics people, Plan 9 people, Inferno (operating system) people

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