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Ken Thompson

Co-creator of Unix at Bell Labs.

Wikipedia-confirmed identity. Matched to Wikidata Q1107006 ↗ with a Wikipedia article ↗. Checked 2026-10-02.

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Co-creator of Unix at Bell Labs.

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Affiliations retain their dates and sources. Roles may be historical; a missing end date does not establish a current role. Machine classifications need review; a co-mention alone does not establish a relationship.

  1. Doug McIlroy↔Ken Thompson

    Unix pipes: proposal and implementation

    collaboratedFrom 1973 · end not recordedCurated evidence
  2. Ken Thompson↔Dennis Ritchie

    Developed Unix

    collaboratedFrom 1969 · end not recordedCurated evidence
  3. Ken Thompson→Bell Labs

    Unix research

    worked atFrom 1969 · end not recordedCurated evidence
  4. Ken Thompson→National Academy of Engineering

    Member of

    member ofDates not recordedWikidata statement
  5. Ken Thompson→Association for Computing Machinery

    Member of

    member ofFrom 2021 · end not recordedWikidata statement
  6. Ken Thompson→Bell Labs

    Works or worked for

    employed by1966–2000Wikidata statement
  7. Ken Thompson→University of California, Berkeley

    Educated at

    educated atThrough 1966 · start not recordedWikidata statement
  8. Ken Thompson→Google

    Works or worked for

    employed byFrom 2006 · end not recordedWikidata statement
  9. Ken Thompson→National Academy of Sciences

    Member of

    member ofDates not recordedWikidata statement
  10. Ken Thompson→University of California, Berkeley

    Educated at

    educated atThrough 1965 · start not recordedWikidata statement
  11. Ken Thompson→American Academy of Arts and Sciences

    Member of

    member ofDates not recordedWikidata statement
  12. Ken Thompson↔Ken Olsen

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  13. Ken Thompson↔Peter Norvig

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  14. Ken Thompson↔Brad Fitzpatrick

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  15. Ken Thompson↔James Gosling

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  16. Ken Thompson↔Donald Knuth

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  17. Jeff Bezos↔Ken Thompson

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  18. Ken Thompson↔Hal Varian

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  19. Ken Thompson↔Albert Camus

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  20. Ken Thompson↔Cory Doctorow

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  21. Claude Shannon↔Ken Thompson

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  22. Ken Thompson↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  23. Ken Thompson↔John Forbes Nash

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  24. Ken Thompson↔David Pogue

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  25. Ken Thompson↔George Orwell

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  26. Ken Thompson↔Tom Brokaw

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  27. Ken Thompson↔Patrick Collison

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  28. Ken Thompson↔Regina E. Dugan

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  29. Brian Kernighan↔Ken Thompson

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  30. Ken Thompson↔Walter Cronkite

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  31. Ken Thompson↔Peter Thiel

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  32. Ken Thompson↔Norman Packard

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  33. Ken Thompson↔Barbara Liskov

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  34. Ken Thompson↔Charlie Rose

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  35. Alan Turing↔Ken Thompson

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  36. Ken Thompson↔Steve Wozniak

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  37. Ken Thompson↔Steve Ballmer

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  38. Ken Thompson↔John Gage

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  39. Ken Thompson↔Sergey Brin

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  40. Ken Thompson↔Vint Cerf

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  41. Ken Thompson↔Ray Eames

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  42. Ken Thompson↔Alexander C. Karp

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  43. Ken Thompson↔Ivan Sutherland

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  44. Ken Thompson↔Edward Teller

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  45. Ken Thompson↔Paul Graham

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  46. Ken Thompson↔Alan Kay

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  47. Ken Thompson↔Shane Legg

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  48. Ken Thompson↔Bruce Schneier

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  49. Ken Thompson↔Andy Hertzfeld

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  50. Ken Thompson↔Enrico Fermi

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

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