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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system and B programming language. Ritchie and Thompson were awarded the Turing Award from...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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 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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    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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  • 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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    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 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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    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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    language, including Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Joshua Bloch, Ken Thompson, and Donald Knuth. One of the most often criticised points of C++ is...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    one of the first parts of the system to be designed and implemented by Ken Thompson in the first experimental version of Unix, dated 1969. As in other operating...
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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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    born in the United Kingdom participated in the first season of the NHL. Ken Thompson had played the previous season for the Montreal Wanderers in the National...
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