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  Ken Thompson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search For other people named Ken Thompson, see Ken Thompson (disambiguation) . Ken Thompson Thompson (left) with Dennis Ritchie Born Kenneth Lane Thompson February 4, 1943 (age 77) New Orleans , Louisiana , U.S. Nationality American Alma mater University of California, Berkeley (B.S., 1965; M.S., 1966) Known for Unix B (programming language) Belle (chess machine) UTF-8 Plan 9 from Bell Labs Inferno (operating system) grep Endgame tablebase Go Awards IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1982) Turing Award (1983) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1985) [1] IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (1990) Computer Pioneer Award (1994) National Medal of Technology (1998) Tsutomu Kanai Award (1999) Harold Pender Award (2003) Japan Prize (2011) Scientific career Fields Computer science Institutions Bell Labs Entrisphere, Inc Google Kenn...