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

Accepted submission by Anonymous Coward at 2019-05-14 08:54:20
Career & Education

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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

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’ll be interviewed Brian Kernighan of “K&R” fame.

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

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