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Vintage Computer Federation East 2019 -- Brian Kernighan Interviews Ken Thompson

posted by martyb on Tuesday May 14 2019, @02:54PM   
from the looking-back-to-our-roots dept.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o

In the 1960s-1970s, Ken Thompson co-invented the UNIX operating system along with Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. He also worked on the language B, the operating system Plan 9, and the language Go. He and Ritchie won the Turing Award. He now works at Google. He's interviewed by Brian Kernighan of "K&R" fame.

This talk took place May 4, 2019. Videography courtesy of @thegurumeditation (Facebook), @thegurumeditate (Twitter)

[Ed note: We generally do not post stories that are strictly video-sourced, but given the stature of the participants in the programming world, I decided to make an exception. If videos are not interesting to you, please wait a bit and another story will be along before too long.]

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• uh.. uh.. (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 14 2019, @05:43PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 14 2019, @05:43PM (#843506)

  "I don't see how Google is really different than Bell anyway."

  Get back to us on that after anyone at Google wins a Nobel prize for their research, kid.

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• Re:uh.. (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 14 2019, @07:11PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 14 2019, @07:11PM (#843542)

  Google employees won several ACM Turing awards. Alphabet has stakes in a couple of projects of Nobel winners in medicine and energy.

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