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Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson is an American computer scientist who co-created Unix.

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Ken Thompson (born 1943) is an American computer scientist. At Bell Labs he created the Unix operating system with Dennis Ritchie and designed the B language, the predecessor of C.

He later co-designed the Go programming language at Google. He and Dennis Ritchie received the Turing Award in 1983.

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