Kenneth Thompson
See also: Thompson
Kenneth Thompson , American data processing specialist, born in 1943 with La Nouvelle-Orléans. Originator of the system UNIX and the language B.
After having obtained its diploma with the university of Berkeley, it joined the Laboratoires Beautiful in 1966. It will work there on the operating systems to Temps divided, in particular Multics, then Unix starting from 1969 and later Plan 9. In 1970, it develops the language B, which will be the precursor of the C.
It will take part in many evolutions of the system Unix: bearing on PDP-11, rewriting in C, and introduction of the pipes .
He is also the inventor of the editor ED and with Rob Pike of the Codage of characters UTF-8.
He jointly accepted with Dennis Ritchie the Prix Turing of ACM in 1983, and the national medal of the technology of the the United States in 1998 for their work on the system Unix.
He took his retirement of Beautiful Labs in 2000. He worked in Entrisphere like advising scientific until 2006 and now he works at Google.
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