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On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself ...

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Ken Thompson

Computer Designer

Born: 1943-02-04

Died: N/A

Kenneth Lane Thompson (born 4 February 1943) is a computer scientist and winner of the 1983 Turing Award, together with Dennis Ritchie. He is notable for his work on the Unix operating system.More