Ken Thompson

GPTKB entity

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gptkb:Japan_Prize
gptkb:National_Medal_of_Technology
Turing Award
gptkbp:birthDate 1943-02-04
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:New_Orleans,_Louisiana,_USA
gptkbp:children gptkb:Corey_Thompson
gptkb:Kirk_Thompson
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gptkb:B_programming_language
gptkb:Go_programming_language
gptkb:Plan_9_operating_system
gptkb:UTF-8_encoding
gptkbp:degree BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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gptkb:UTF-8_encoding
gptkbp:education gptkb:University_of_California,_Berkeley
gptkbp:employer gptkb:Bell_Labs
gptkb:Google
gptkbp:field gptkb:programming_language
computer science
operating systems
software engineering
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Kenneth_Lane_Thompson
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gptkbp:helpedEstablish gptkb:Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Ken Thompson
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gptkb:Dennis_Ritchie
gptkb:Rob_Pike
gptkb:Go_programming_language_team
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gptkb:National_Academy_of_Engineering
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
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gptkbp:occupation gptkb:computer_scientist
gptkbp:retired gptkb:Bell_Labs
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Bonnie_Thompson
gptkbp:TuringAwardWith gptkb:Dennis_Ritchie
gptkbp:TuringAwardYear 1983
Development of generic operating systems theory and implementation of Unix
gptkbp:wrote gptkb:Space_Travel_(video_game)
early Unix utilities
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gptkb:Association_for_Computing_Machinery
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gptkb:Bell_Telephone_Laboratories
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gptkb:graphical_user_interface
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