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New Orleans, LA
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Electrical Engineering, University of California (Berklee)
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Electrical Engineering, University of California (Berklee)
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Currently named Nokia Bell Labs, previously called AT&T Bell Laboratories, Bell Telephone Laboratories, is a research company that specializes in scientific development.
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Along with Dennis Ritchie, the B programming language was intended for system programming use rather than numerical applications. The programming language was been improved since then, having different titles such as C, C++, and Java. In 2004, a new programming language called D was created, that supposedly does not contain the faults that popular compilers like Java, C++ and C# have.
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Developed in Bell Labs, Space Travel was one of the first video games. The player controls a space ship and flies through space landing on objects. The game was originally written on the computer GE 635, then on the PDP-7.
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At Bell Labs, Thompson and Ritchie were developing a computer operating system that would eventually become the first portable operating system, compatible with multiple computers. Unix was derived from work on an operating system called Multics, which was the previous project at Bell Labs before the work on Unix began. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoVQTPbD6UY
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This award is given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community". Thompson and Ritchie received the award "for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system."
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The UTF-8 encoding system is a character coding with the ability to encode all code points regardless of the code's original compatibility. UTF-8 is currently the main character coding for the world wide web.
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The medal was created in honor of Richard W. Hamming, who was a significant figure in the development of computers and advancement in the world of computer science. Thompson and Ritchie received the award for "for the origination of the UNIX operating system and the C programming language".
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Thompson was made a fellow "For his co-creation, with Dennis Ritchie, of the UNIX operating system, and for development of the C programming language." http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/ken-thompson/
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Given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , Thompson received the award "for his role in creating the UNIX operating system, which for decades has been a key platform for distributed systems work."
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The award was given to Thompson by president Bill Clinton for co-inventing Unix.
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Go is a free, open source programming language. It was largely based of the C programming language, but it was created to be easier, simpler, and safer.
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Received for the category of information and and communications, Thompson and Ritchie were awarded the esteemed international Japan Prize for their innovation in the development of the Unix system.
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