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Ken Thompson Net Worth

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Ken Thompson Net Worth

Ken Thompson net worth is
$1.6 Million

Ken Thompson Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family

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 BirthNovember 7, 1983
Place Of BirthJohannesburg, South Africa
Height6' 1" (1.85 m)
ProfessionActor
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley
NationalityAmerican
NicknamesKenneth Thompson, Kenneth Lane Thompson, Thompson, Kenneth, Thompson, Kenneth Lane
Star SignScorpio

Known for movies

Rusty

Ta Ra Rum Pum 2007
as Rusty