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.]
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 15 2019, @03:34AM
Wernher von Braun might have been guilty of crimes against humanity [archive.is].
Von Braun's rocket programme that produced the V-1 and V-2 made heavy use of slave labour from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp, where some 20,000 died from illness, horrible working conditions, or outright execution. More people died building the V-2 rockets than were killed by them when they were used.