Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943) is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the …

Oct 21, 2025 · In 1969, Thompson and colleague Dennis Ritchie created the UNIX operating system at Bell Telephone Laboratories. UNIX was a scaled-down version of the MIT MULTICS …

Within a few months, Thompson and Ritchie, who had joined him, had created UNIX, a new OS not completely tied to any particular computer hardware, as earlier systems had been.

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bell Labs colleagues Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie developed UNIX, a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system alternative to the batch …

Dec 28, 2025 · In 1969 Kenneth Thompson and Dennis Ritchie developed the UNIX operating system at Bell Labs. This was the first operating system designed to run on computers of all …

This book was used to teach Unix in operating systems courses around the world, and created a generation of computer scientists familiar with Unix internals. In 1983 Thompson and Ritchie …

Ken Thompson rewrote the UNIX kernel in the “C” language in 1972, which was the move that changed and assured the UNIX’s future success, as it made the UNIX more portable.

distributedcomputing. Ken their role in developing the Unix system and C. On the occasion of the presentation of the Computer Society’s and Hitachi’s inaugural Tsutomu Kanai Award for …

Ken Thompson is a prominent computer engineer best known for his groundbreaking work at Bell Laboratories, where he co-developed the Unix operating system with Dennis Ritchie in 1969.

Since virtually all modern Unix and Unix-like systems are descended from V7 and 2BSD, the Thompson shell is generally no longer used. It is, however, available as open-source as part of …