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In 1965 Ken received his bachelor's degree in science at the University of California.
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A year later, Ken got his masters degree in electrical engineering at Berkeley.
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After he got his masters, he was hired by Bell Labs.
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After being hired, Thompson and Dennis Ritchie started to create the Multics operating system.
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Ken Thompson also created the Bon programming language while writing Multics. He then also ended up creating the video game called Space Travel.
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Throughout the 1970s, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie worked on the Unix operating system together.
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Thompson took a break from the Bell Labs and went back to Berkeley where he installed the Version 6 Unix on a PDP-11/70. This would then lead Unix at Berkeley to be its own system, known as the Berkeley Software Distribution.
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Throughout the 1980s, both Thompson and Ritchie continued to make Unix a better operating system, which lead Unix to adopt a BSD codebase for the 8th, 9th, and 10th editions.
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Ken Thompson was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for designing Unix.
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Both Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie jointly received the Turing Award "for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system".
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He came back to the Bell Labs to work on a new operating system as a replacement for Unix.
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n 1992, Thompson developed the UTF-8 encoding scheme. Today, the UTF-8 encoding has since become the main character of encoding for the Web all over the world.
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Thompson and Ritchie jointly received the National Medal of Technology from President Bill Clinton for co-inventing the UNIX operating system and the C programming language.
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Thompson retired from Bell Labs. Then he started to work at Entrisphere, Inc as a fellow until 2006. Now he works at Google as a Distinguished Engineer.
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Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie were awarded the Japan Prize for Information and Communications for the work they put into the development of the Unix operating system.
