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Ken Thompson was born
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Thompson received his BS electrical engineering and computer science from Berkeley.
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He received his masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Berkeley.
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The same year Thompson received his masters degree, he was hired by Bell Labs. He later went on to create video game Space Travel with colleague Dennis Ritchie.
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Going off of creating video games, Ken used these tools to created UNIX. The official name was coined suggested by Brian Kernighan.
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Thompson decided that UNIX needed to be an operating system and created programming language B
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Thompson briefly left Bell Labs to help UC Berkeley install Version 6 of UNIX.
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Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing award for the development of UNIX
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After years of development on UNIX, Thompson began creating Plan 9, a new operating system for Bell Labs.
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Thompson created encoding scheme known as UTF-8. UTF-8 is still used for roughly half of all pages found on the internet.
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Thompson in partnership with colleagues at Bell Labs created the Inferno OS
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Ritchie and Tompson were inducted as Fellows of the Computer History Museum due to their creation of UNIX
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Thompson retires from Bell Labs after roughly 46 years.
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Ken was hired at google as a Distinguished Engineer.
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Thompson and Dennis Ritchie who helped him create Inferno were awarded the Japan Prize for Information and Communications.
