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Kenneth Thompson and Dennis Ritchie developed UNIX while working at Bell Labs. UNIX a multi-user, multi-tasking operating system. Later UNIX was edited by several hackers to improve or change the system. Including the Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix which Ken Thompson helped develop while on Sabbatical from Bell Labs. -
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Belle was a Chess programmed computer
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During the 1980's Thompson worked on Plan 9 for Bell Labs. Plan 9, an Operating System to make multiple computers operate as a single unit
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In 1983 Belle was the first machine to reach Master Level in Chess -
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie win the Turing Award for their development of UNIX -
Thompson and Ritchie are awarded the Richard W. Hamming Medal for their development of UNIX -
Plan 9 released to Universities as a Free OS and UNIX successor -
Thompson and Ritchie developed UTF-8, a variable-length character encoding for communicating -
Plan 9 was released for commercial use in 1995, drawing is Glenda the Plan 9 mascot drawn by Renee French -
For their work on UNIX and their contribution to computers Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie are inducted as Fellows into the Computer History Museum -
Both Thompson and Ritchie were award the first Tsutomu Kanai Award for their work on UNIX -
Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson are awarded the National Medal of Technology and presented the award by President Bill Clinton -
In 2000 Plan 9 was released as an Open Source Operating System -
Ken Thompson retired from Bell Labs -
Ken Thompson was convinced by Google to come out of retirement and work with them to develop Go Programming Language -
Ken Thompson along with Dennis Ritchie are awarded the Japan Prize for Information and Communication for their development of UNIX, while working at Google