# Ken Thompson

> American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)

**Wikidata**: [Q1107006](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1107006)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/ken-thompson


## References

1. [Source](https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/thompson_4588371.cfm)
2. [Source](https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/thompson_4588371#140)
3. [Source](https://www.nationalmedals.org/laureates)
4. [Source](https://events.seas.upenn.edu/distinguished-lectures/pender-lecture/)
5. [Source](https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/awards/piore_rl.pdf)
6. [Source](https://www.computer.org./profiles/kenneth-thompson)
7. [Source](https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/pioneer/)
8. [Source](https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/thompson_4588371#149)
9. [Source](https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/awards/recipients/hamming-rl.pdf)
10. [Source](https://www.japanprize.jp/en/prize_past_2011_prize01.html)
11. [Source](https://www.acm.org/media-center/2021/january/fellows-2020)
12. International Standard Name Identifier
13. [Source](http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102657921)
14. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
15. [Source](https://www.nasonline.org./directory-entry/kenneth-thompson-giefwk)