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Ken Thompson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1943.
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Graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science.
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He graduated with his M.S. from UC Berkeley.
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Joins Bell Labs computing research department, working on the Multics project.
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Kenneth Thompson alongside Dennis Ritchie created the UNIX operating system.
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Writes B programming language, a precursor to Dennis Ritchie's C programming language.
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Moves UNIX from the PDP-7 to the PDP-11
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Rewrites portions of UNIX to include Doug McIlroy's concept of pipes.
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Unix was rewritten in the programming language C so that it could be a portable operating system.
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Kenneth Thompson was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley teaching the UNIX operating system.
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A chess-playing computer he developed with Joe H. Condon, wins the U.S. and World Computing Chess Championships
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Kenneth Thompson receives alongside his old-time colleague Dennis Ritchie the ACM Turing Award.
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Awarded with Dennis Ritchie the National Medal of Technology for the development of the UNIX system
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Kenneth Thompson retired from Bell Labs to pursue flight instructing full time.
