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Ken Thompson Net Worth
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Ken Thompson net worth is $1.6 Million
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Kenneth "Ken" Thompson (born February 4, 1943), commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science. Having worked at Bell Labs for most of his career, Thompson designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C programming language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating systems. Since 2006, Thompson works at Google, where he co-invented the Go programming language.Other notable contributions included his work on regular expressions and early computer text editors QED and ed, the definition of the UTF-8 encoding, his work on computer chess that included creation of endgame tablebases and the chess machine Belle.
Net Worth
$1.6 Million
Date Of Birth
November 7, 1983
Place Of Birth
Johannesburg, South Africa
Height
6' 1" (1.85 m)
Profession
Actor
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Nationality
American
Nicknames
Kenneth Thompson, Kenneth Lane Thompson, Thompson, Kenneth, Thompson, Kenneth Lane