Ken Thompson
American computer designer
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Kenneth Lane Thompson is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. Wikipedia
Born: 1943 (age 81 years), New Orleans, LA
Awards: Turing Award, Japan Prize, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, and more
Alma mater: University of California, Berkeley (B.S., 1965; M.S., 1966)