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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It was designed at Google in 2009 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It is syntactically similar to C, but also has memory safety, garbage...
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Sir Angus Sharp <= 1970 1974 21 Ken Burnside October 1974 mid 1978 22 Bob Walton mid 1978 4 November 1983 23 Ken Thompson 5 November 1983 January 1987 24...
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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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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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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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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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language, including Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Joshua Bloch, Ken Thompson, and Donald Knuth. In 1979, Bjarne Stroustrup, a Danish computer scientist...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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preceding 24 February 2022. It is also the choice of distro used by Ken Thompson, one of the original developers of the UNIX operating system. Jesse Smith...
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those, etc. Ken Thompson was a pioneer in this area. The results of the computer analysis sometimes surprised people. In 1977 Thompson's Belle chess machine...
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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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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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Pike, Joshua Bloch, Linus Torvalds, Donald Knuth, Richard Stallman, and Ken Thompson. C++ has been widely adopted and implemented as a systems language through...
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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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not particularly commercially successful in itself, directly inspired Ken Thompson to develop Unix. Later, Vyssotsky was the founding director of Digital's...
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Kenneth Kwamina Thompson also known as Ken Thompson (born 24 June 1961) is an orator and well known for his views on issues related to finance and economics...
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in the GENIE time-sharing system, where the concept was borrowed by Ken Thompson for its earliest appearance in Research Unix. Fork later became a standard...
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