Ken thompson (portrait)

Kenneth Thompson

By mhmeek55

  • Kenneth born

    Kenneth Thompson was born in New Orleans.

  • Graduates with masters

    Ken graduates with a masters degree in electrical engeenering from Universiyt of California, Berkly

  • Bell Labs

    After graduation, Ken went to work for Bell Labs and he first worked on Multics Operating System (OS).

  • B Programming Language

    Ken with the help of Ritchie created B Programming Language.

  • UNIX Created

    Kenneth and Ritchie created UNIX.

  • UNIX in C

    UNIX was rewritten in C language.

  • C programming language published

    The C programming language was published.

  • Continuous work on UNIX

    all through the 1980's Thompson and Rithchie continued revising UNIX which adopted BSD code base for the 8th, 9th, and 10th addition.

  • National Academy of Engineering

    In 1980 Ken was elected into the National Academy of Engineering for UNIX.

  • Turning Award

    Thompson and Ritchie both received the Turning Award for their UNIX operating system.

  • Inferno

    In the 1990's Thompson and Ritchie started working on the Inferno operating system.

  • IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal

    Thompson and Ritchie both received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal for the UNIX.

  • UTF-8

    Ken created UTF-8 encoding with Rob Pike.

  • National Medal for Technology

    Thompson and Ritchie both jointly received the National Medal for Technology from President Bill Clinton for the UNIX.

  • Retirement from Bell

    In the late 2000's Thompson retired from Bell Labratories.

  • Entrisphere retirement

    Ken worked for Entrisphere until 2006 when he reitred.

  • Japan Prize

    Thompson and Ritchie both awarded the Japan Prize for Information and Communication for the UNIX.

  • Google

    After his work with Entrisphere Ken started working for Google, where he currently works now.