Inventor of UNIX
Date of birth: 1943 edit
Current residence: California edit
Important software Ken Thompson has worked on:
Timeline:
| Year | Event |
| 1943-1960 | Navy brat moving every few years |
| 1943 | Born in New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 1965-66 | Graduates with B.S and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley |
| 1966 | Joins Bell Labs Computing Research Department, working on the Multics project |
| 1969 | Develops UNIX* operating system |
| 1970 | Writes B language, precursor to Dennis Ritchie's C language |
| 1971 | Moves UNIX from the PDP-7 to the PDP-11 |
| 1973 | Rewrites portions of UNIX to include Doug McIlroy's concept of pipes |
| 1973 | Rewrites UNIX in Dennis Ritchie's C language |
| 1975-6 | Visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley |
| 1980 | Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Science |
| 1980 | Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering |
| 1980 | "Belle," a chess-playing computer he developed with Joe H. Condon, wins the U.S. and World Computing Chess Championships |
| 1983 | Receives with Dennis Ritchie the ACM Turing Award |
| 1983 | Named Bell Labs Fellow |
| 1988 | Visiting professor at the University of Sydney, Australia |
| 1998 | Awarded with Dennis Ritchie the National Medal of Technology for the development of the UNIX system |
| 2000 | Retires from Bell Labs |
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