Retrieved Jul 27, 2023. "Dr. Ken Thompson". National Academy of Engineering. Archived from the original on Oct 21, 2021. Thompson, Ken (1984). "Reflections on...
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circa 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. B was derived from BCPL, and its name may possibly be a contraction of BCPL. Thompson's coworker Dennis...
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whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others. Initially intended for use inside the Bell...
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The Thompson shell was the first Unix shell, introduced in the first version of Unix in 1971, and was written by Ken Thompson. It was a simple command...
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language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system and B language. Ritchie and Thompson were awarded the Turing Award from the...
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best known for his roles as Mr Gilbert in The Inbetweeners (2008–2010), Ken Thompson in Cuckoo (2012–2019), Dan Davies in Man Down (2013–2017) and Paul "Wicky"...
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private utility written by Ken Thompson to search files for certain patterns. Doug McIlroy, unaware of its existence, asked Thompson to write such a program...
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The Unix philosophy, originated by Ken Thompson, is a set of cultural norms and philosophical approaches to minimalist, modular software development. It...
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manufactured one atomic layer at a time. In 1969, Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson created the computer operating system UNIX for the support of telecommunication...
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programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It is syntactically similar to C, but also has memory safety, garbage...
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Kenneth, or Ken Thompson, or Kenny Thompson, or Kennedy Thompson, or Kenan Thompson may refer to: Kenneth Thompson (bishop) (died 1975), Bishop of Sherwood...
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October 9 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center at the age of 50. "Ken Thompson Obituary" (PDF). The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office. Retrieved October...
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G. Kennedy Thompson, also known as Ken Thompson, (born November 25, 1950) is an American banker and businessman who was chairman, president, and CEO of...
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strings against the regular expression. This algorithm is credited to Ken Thompson. Regular expressions and nondeterministic finite automata are two representations...
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vulnerability in the Multics computer systems. It was made popular by Ken Thompson in his 1983 Turing Award acceptance lecture "Reflections on Trusting...
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self-synchronization and fully ASCII-compatible handling of characters such as slashes. Ken Thompson and Rob Pike produced the first implementation for the Plan 9 operating...
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The Practice of Programming and The Unix Programming Environment. With Ken Thompson, he is the co-creator of UTF-8 character encoding. While at Bell Labs...
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of the project. Their last researchers to leave Multics – among them Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Doug McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna – decided to redo the...
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language, including Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Joshua Bloch, Ken Thompson, and Donald Knuth. One of the most often criticized points of C++ is...
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Space Travel is an early video game developed by Ken Thompson in 1969 that simulates travel in the Solar System. The player flies their ship around a two-dimensional...
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shell—developed by Ken Thompson in August 1969 on a PDP-7 at AT&T Bell Labs. Many features of ed came from the qed text editor developed at Thompson's alma mater...
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Kenworthy James "Ken" Thompson (1895–1931) was a British-born Canadian professional ice hockey player. After playing several seasons of amateur hockey...
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Cuckoo (TV series) (redirect from Dale Thompson (Cuckoo))
all approximately 100 miles south of Lichfield), home to the Thompson family. When Ken (Davies) and Lorna (Baxendale) collect their daughter Rachel (Kari)...
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written for the TSS/8 time sharing system by J.S. Felton, for Unix by Ken Thompson, and for the Multics system at MIT by Jerrold Grochow. Since 1971, the...
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early systems programming language, was developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson at Bell Labs between 1969 and 1973. Smalltalk (mid-1970s) provided a...
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written in MAD assembler. Their program in turn was "transliterated" by Ken Thompson into PDP-7 assembler language for his early Unix operating system, circa...
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which inherited the concept of process forking from it. Unix co-creator Ken Thompson worked on Project Genie while at Berkeley. SPICE – Donald O. Pederson...
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originally implemented in assembly language on a PDP-7 by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, incorporating several ideas from colleagues. Eventually, they decided...
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uniformly performing comparison operations on long word operands Rob Pike Ken Thompson Brian Kernighan "Robert Griesemer | Speakers | Channel 9". channel9.msdn...
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Labs and contributed to the development of Unix alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan's name became widely known through co-authorship...
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