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Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 4 February 1943
- Place of birth
- New Orleans
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Thompson
- Field of work
- informatics, computer science
- Occupation
- programmer, computer scientist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Native language
- English
- Awards
- Turing Award, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, Harold Pender Award, IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, Tsutomu Kanai Award, Computer History Museum Fellow, Computer Pioneer Award, ACM Software System Award, IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, Japan Prize, National Inventors Hall of Fame, ACM Fellow
- archives at
- Computer History Museum
- different from
- Ken Thompson, Ken Thompson
- Erdős number
- 7
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Association for Computing Machinery
- name in native language
- Kenneth Lane Thompson
- partner in business or sport
- Dennis M. Ritchie
- topic's main category
- Category:Ken Thompson
- writing language
- English
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