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Ken Thompson

Full Name: Kenneth Lane (February 4, 1943).

Thompson designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. 

He also invented the B programming language.

Thompson was born in New Orleans. Thompson received a Bachelor of Science in 1965 and a Master's degree in 1966, both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, from the University of California, Berkeley, where his master's thesis advisor was Elwyn Berlekamp.

In the 1960's at Bell Labs, Thompson and Dennis Ritchie worked on the Multics operating system. While writing Multics, Thompson created the Bon programming language. The two left the Multics project when Bell Labs withdrew from it, but they used the experience from the project.

Awards

1982:-
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
1983:-
Turing Award
1994:-
Computer Pioneer Award 

1997:-
Computer History Museum Fellow
1998:-
National Medal of Technology
1998:-
Tsutomu Kanai Award
2011:-
Japan Prize