| Nationality: |
USA |
| Date of Birth: |
February 4 1943 |
| 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
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| Major Honors: |
- Association for Computing Machinery, A.M. Turing Award (1983)
- NEC, C&C Award (1989)
- US National Medal of Technology and Innovation for the development of the UNIX operating system (1998)
- IEEE Tsutomu Kanai Award (1999)
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| Membership: |
- Member, US National Academy of Engineering (1980)
- Member, US National Academy of Science (1985)
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