Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson
Kenneth Lane "Ken" Thompson, commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science. Having worked at Bell Labs for most of his career, Thompson designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C programming language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating systems. Since 2006, Thompson has worked at Google, where he co-invented the Go...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth4 February 1943
CountryUnited States of America
I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.
I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.
That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.
For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.
I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!
I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.
I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft-a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.
So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.
I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.
If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.