Ken Thompson - Revision history

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[[Image:KenDMR.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Ken Thompson (sitting) and Dennis Ritchie (standing]]

'''Ken Thompson''' (often referred to as '''ken''') was an influential American computer scientist, best known for his work on [[UNIX]] (produced in collaboration with [[Dennis Ritchie]]). He also initiated the [[C programming language]], although most of the work on that was done by Ritchie.

He attended University of California, Berkeley, where he received an undergraduate degree in 1965, and a master's degree in 1966. He went to work at [[Bell Labs]] in 1966, joining the Computing Sciences Research Center. He spent the rest of his career at the Labs, and its descendants., retiring in 2000. He was part of the Bell team which joined the [[Multics]] project; after Bell pulled out of Multics, he and Ritchie eventually fell into UNIX and C.

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==External links==

* [http://cs.bell-labs.co/who/ken/ Ken Thompson's Home Page]
* [https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/cacm.html The Unix Time-sharing System] ([https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/cacm.pdf PDF]) - 1978 [[BSTJ]] verson

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 '''Ken Thompson''' (often referred to as '''ken''') was an influential American computer scientist, best known for his work on [[UNIX]] (produced in collaboration with [[Dennis Ritchie]]). He also initiated the [[C programming language]], although most of the work on that was done by Ritchie.
-He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received an undergraduate degree in 1965, and a master's degree in 1966. He went to work at [[Bell Labs]] in 1966, joining the Computing Sciences Research Center. He spent the rest of his career at the Labs, and its descendants., retiring in 2000. He was part of the Bell team which joined the [[Multics]] project; after Bell pulled out of Multics, he and Ritchie eventually fell into UNIX and C.
+He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received an undergraduate degree in 1965, and a master's degree in 1966. He went to work at [[Bell Labs]] in 1966, joining the Computing Sciences Research Center. He spent the rest of his career at the Labs, and its descendants, retiring in 2000. He was part of the Bell team which joined the [[Multics]] project; after Bell pulled out of Multics, he and Ritchie eventually fell into UNIX and C.
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 * [http://cs.bell-labs.co/who/ken/ Ken Thompson's Home Page]
 * [https://history.computer.org/pioneers/pdfs/T/Thompson.pdf Kenneth Thompson] - brief biography at the IEEE Computer Society
-* [https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/cacm.html The Unix Time-sharing System] ([https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/cacm.pdf PDF]) - 1978 [[BSTJ]] verson
+* D. M. Ritchie and K. Thompson, [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/cacm.html ''The Unix Time-sharing System''] ([https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/cacm.pdf PDF]) - 1978 [[Bell System Technical Journal]] version
-* [https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/picture.html An amusing photo] - "Ken and [DMR] in front of a PDP-11"
+* [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/picture.html An amusing photo] - "Ken and [DMR] in front of a PDP-11"
 * [https://computerhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/102685442.03.01.jpg Ken and DMR] - from another angle
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		+	* Brian Kernighan, [https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-History-Memoir-Brian-Kernighan/dp/1695978552 UNIX: A History and a Memoir] - has a brief bio of Thompson at the end of Chapter 2

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