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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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Vintage Computer Federation East 2019 -- Brian Kernighan Interviews Ken Thompson
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(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday May 15 2019, @04:05AM
Bell System, at one time was so huge in U.S.A. Said, monopoly. Even though certain places were GTE.
Google, in this Age of Cyber, is amazingly big. They have their cyber on 85% of the Cell Phones -- of our entire World!! Some people are saying, monopoly. Even though iPhone is very successful!