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
There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.
In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
It's about a necessity to be on a major interstate in our line of business.
There seems to be no public policy purpose for the zoning that is there ... This whole thing just smacks of special interest politics.
You can train yourself to notice this kind of wildlife. Next time you have some weeding or a bit of pruning to do, start looking at plants and ask yourself: 'What made that hole in that leaf?' or 'What's living in that hole?' You start to look at your garden in a completely different way.
Their laws aren't a good fit for escrow companies outside of California, and I think they're overly strict. They're trying to apply a law written for real estate escrow companies in California to any Internet escrow company based outside California.
Today's outcome is a tremendous victory and a major milestone within the merger process, ... It is clear that Wachovia shareholders have strongly endorsed the compelling strategic rationale behind the Wachovia-First Union combination.