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Kenneth Lane Thompson was born on this day in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Kenneth Lane Thompson earns his Bachelor's of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
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Kenneth Lane Thompson was hired by Bell Labs, the research and development arm of AT&T.
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Kenneth Lane Thompson earns his Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Berkeley.
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While at Bell Labs, Thompson created a game called Space Travel.
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Thompson creates the B Programming Language which will heavily influence the common language C.
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Kenneth Thompson creates UNIX at Bell Labs with Dennis Ritchie.
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Thompson rewrites his UNIX Kernel in the updated programming language C.
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Thompson is elected to the US National Academy of Engineering for all of his work.
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Thompson's chess-playing computer he developed wins the World Championship
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Thompson and good companion Dennis Ritchie win the Turing Award "for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system."
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Kenneth Lane Thompson wins the Computer Pioneer Award for his work with UNIX.
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Thompson assisted Dennis Ritchie in creating two more Operating Systems, Plan 9 and Inferno.
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Thompson retires from Bell Laboratories and moves to California.
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Thompson wins the Japan Prize with Ritchie shortly before Ritchie passes.
