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Ken Thompson

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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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