Kenneth Thompson

Kenneth Thompson

Year	Event
1943	Born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1943-1960	Navy brat moving every few years
1965-66	Graduates with B.S and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley
1966	Joins Bell Labs Computing Research Department, working on the Multics project
1969	Develops UNIX* operating system
1970	Writes B language, precursor to Dennis Ritchie's C language
1971	Moves UNIX from the PDP-7 to the PDP-11
1973	Rewrites UNIX in Dennis Ritchie's C language
1973	Rewrites portions of UNIX to include Doug McIlroy's concept of pipes
1975-6	Visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley
1980	"Belle," a chess-playing computer he developed with Joe H. Condon, wins the U.S. and World Computing Chess Championships
1980	Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
1983	Named Bell Labs Fellow
1983	Receives with Dennis Ritchie the ACM Turing Award
1980	Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Science
1988	Visiting professor at the University of Sydney, Australia
1998	Awarded with Dennis Ritchie the National Medal of Technology for the development of the UNIX system
2000	Retires from Bell Labs

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