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Ken Thompson

A computer scientist and co-creator of the Unix operating system and the Go programming language. He received the Turing Award in 1983 and is widely known for his lecture 'Reflections on Trusting Trust.'

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Sep 18

In 1984, Ken Thompson proposed the thought experiment of a trust chain attack in his Turing Award lecture "Reflections on Trusting Trust."

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Sep 10

Ken Thompson co-created the Go programming language together with Rob Pike and Robert Griesemer.

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Sep 9

Ken Thompson delivered a lecture titled "Reflections on Trusting Trust" in 1984.

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Sep 9

Ken Thompson received the Turing Award in 1983 together with Ritchie for their contributions to operating system theory and practice.

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Sep 8

In 1969, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie wrote the first version of Unix in assembly language on a PDP-7, and in 1973 rewrote the Unix kernel in C.

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Sep 6

Ken Thompson is the co-inventor of the Unix operating system, the designer of the B language, the co-inventor of UTF-8 encoding, and a co-designer of the Go language.

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Sep 5

Thompson originally wrote grep by extracting the regular expression search functionality (the g/re/p command) from the ed editor into a standalone tool.

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Sep 5

grep was born in 1973 on the Unix system and was written by Ken Thompson.

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Sep 5

The Unix philosophy was established by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie in the 1970s; its core principle is 'do one thing and do it well,' with programs combined through a pipe mechanism.

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Aug 27

Unix 中以点开头的隐藏文件特性源于 Ken Thompson 为在 ls 输出中隐藏 . 和 .. 目录而跳过所有以点开头的条目

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The UNIX philosophy was proposed by Bell Labs' Ken Thompson and Doug McIlroy in the 1970s, with the core principle of 'do one thing and do it well'

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The Unix pipe mechanism was introduced by Ken Thompson in 1973.

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Ken Thompson在BCPL基础上为早期UNIX开发了B语言

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RE2的设计直接受到Ken Thompson在1968年发表的正则表达式编译算法的启发

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TNFA算法是Ville Laurikari在其硕士论文中提出的创新方法,解决了Thompson NFA算法难以处理子匹配捕获的历史难题

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Man page起源于1971年的Unix第一版,最初由Dennis Ritchie和Ken Thompson编写

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Ken Thompson早在1968年的论文中就描述了高效的NFA模拟算法

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Ken Thompson is the co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language, and is a Turing Award laureate.

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The Go programming language was designed internally at Google by three people: Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.

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In 1984, Ken Thompson proposed the thought experiment of a trust chain attack in his Turing Award lecture "Reflections on Trusting Trust."

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Ken Thompson co-created the Go programming language together with Rob Pike and Robert Griesemer.

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Ken Thompson received the Turing Award in 1983 together with Ritchie for their contributions to operating system theory and practice.

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Ken Thompson delivered a lecture titled "Reflections on Trusting Trust" in 1984.

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In 1969, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie wrote the first version of Unix in assembly language on a PDP-7, and in 1973 rewrote the Unix kernel in C.

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Ken Thompson is the co-inventor of the Unix operating system, the designer of the B language, the co-inventor of UTF-8 encoding, and a co-designer of the Go language.

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Thompson originally wrote grep by extracting the regular expression search functionality (the g/re/p command) from the ed editor into a standalone tool.

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grep was born in 1973 on the Unix system and was written by Ken Thompson.

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The Unix philosophy was established by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie in the 1970s; its core principle is 'do one thing and do it well,' with programs combined through a pipe mechanism.

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Unix 中以点开头的隐藏文件特性源于 Ken Thompson 为在 ls 输出中隐藏 . 和 .. 目录而跳过所有以点开头的条目

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