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American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)

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Q1107006 refers to an American programmer and computer scientist born in 1943 who helped create Unix, one of the most influential operating systems in computing history. This person's work on Unix has had lasting impact on how computers are designed and operated, influencing countless systems and technologies that billions of people rely on today.

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Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943) is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating system. Other notable contributions included his work on regular expressions and early computer text editors QED and ed, the definition of the UTF-8 encoding, and his work on computer chess that included the creation of endgame tablebases and the chess machine Belle.

Since 2006, Thompson has worked at Google, where he co-developed the Go language. In 1983, he won the Turing Award with his long-term colleague Dennis Ritchie. He is considered one of the greatest computer programmers of all time.