The 2011 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Information and Communications
• Achievement:
  Development of the operating system, UNIX

Major Honors

1983	Association for Computing Machinery, A.M. Turing Award
1989	NEC, C&C Award
1998	US National Medal of Technology and Innovation for the development of the UNIX operating system
1999	IEEE Tsutomu Kanai Award

Membership

1980	Member, US National Academy of Engineering
1985	Member, US National Academy of Science

Academic Degrees

1964	Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
1966	Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Professional Career

1966	Research Staff, Bell Labs
1975-76	Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley
1983	Fellow, Bell Labs
1988	Visiting Professor, University of Sydney, Australia
2000	Fellow, Entrisphere Inc.
2006	Distinguished Engineer, Google Inc.

Title

• Distinguished Engineer, Google Inc.

Major Publications

• K. Thompson, Regular Expression Search Algorithm, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 419-422, 1968.
• D. M. Ritchie and K. Thompson, The UNIX Time-Sharing System, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 17, No. 7, pp. 365-375, 1974.
• K. Thompson, “Belle Chess Hardware”, In Advances In Computer Chess 3 (ed. M.R.B. Clarke), Pergamon Press, 1982.
• K. Thompson, Reflections on Trusting Trust, 1983 Turing Award Lecture, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 27, No. 8, pp. 761-763, 1984.
• R. Pike, D. Presotto, S. Dorward, R. Flandrena, K. Thompson, H. Trickey and P. Winterbottom, Plan 9 from Bell Labs, Computing Systems, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 221-254, 1995.
• K. Thompson, “How I Spent My Winter Vacation”
  http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/mig.html
• K. Thompson, et al “The Go Programming Language”
  http://golang.org