Kenneth Thompson

19?? -- Born (where???)

19?? -- Graduates with B.S and M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley

19?? -- Graduates from ??? with a master's degree in ???

1966 -- Joins Bell Labs Computer Research Department

1964?? -- Joins Bell Labs team on the Multics project

1969 -- Develops UNIX operating system

1970?? -- Writes B language, precursor to Dennis Ritchie's C language

1971 -- Moves UNIX from the PDP-7 to the PDP-11, demonstrating the system's portability and its first commercial application

1973 -- Rewrites UNIX in Kenneth Ritchie's C language

1973 -- Rewrites portions of UNIX to include Doug McIlroy's concept of pipes

1975-6 -- Teaches as visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley

1980 -- "Belle," a chess-playing computer he developed with Joe H. Condon, wins the U.S. and World Computing Chess Championships

1983 -- Named Bell Labs Fellow

1988 -- Named to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering

1988 -- Teaches a visiting professor at the University of Sydney in Australia

1989 -- Receives with Dennis Ritchie the NEC C&C Prize for significant contributions to computer technology

1995 -- Part of a team that develops Plan 9 Operating System (http://www.lucent.com/press/0795/950718.bla.html)

1998 -- Receives with Dennis Ritchie the  National Medal of Technology (link to ???) for the development of the UNIX system

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