Abstract
Ken Thompson is the original bearded Unix hacker. He has spent a career working on whatever he finds interesting, which has, at various times, included analog computing, systems programming, regular expressions, and computer chess.
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- File System
- Garbage Collection
- Buffer Overflow
- Cache Coherency
- Modern Programming
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Seibel, P. (2009). Ken Thompson. In: Coders at Work. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1949-1_12
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