Oral History of Ken Thompson

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Interviewed by John Mashey on 2005-02-08 in Mountain View, CA
© Computer History Museum
At Bell Laboratories in 1977, Ken Thompson (best known as the co-creator of the Unix operating system) and Joe Condon designed and built Belle, a dedicated chess-playing machine connected to a minicomputer. Belle's custom hardware and endgame database revolutionized computer chess.
Note: Transcripts represent what was said in the interview. However, to enhance meaning or add clarification, interviewees have the opportunity to modify this text afterward. This may result in discrepancies between the transcript and the video. Please refer to the transcript for further information - www.computerhis...
Visit computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/ for more information about the Computer History Museum's Oral History Collection.
Catalog Number: 102630664
Lot Number: X3091.2005

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Комментарии : 18

@dr.strangelove5622 Год назад

This is AMAZING!!! I was thinking "Gee! Most of the giants do say that Ken was one of a kind. I wonder if there are some interviews of him". And I searched on RU-vid a bit only to find that very few interviews of him are out there. Scrolling a bit more and I find this video, and it was just uploaded 9 hours ago!! Amazing! Timing couldn't have been better!! I wish there were some interviews of Dennis Ritchie too. It is sad that he passed away about a decade ago. Thank you Computer History Museum for uploading the interviews of giants like Knuth, Thompson and Cutler. Keep up the great work!!

@fikrirazaq8373 Год назад

Amazingly as a software genius, he seems very polite, calm and relax. Nothing looks like a geek at all. Impressive.

@rysw19 11 месяцев назад

He doesn’t even have horns. Amazing!

@domaincontroller Год назад

If you're into computer chess history it's definitely a video for you but if you're into Unix and C history you might get bored. I gave up after 01:23:00. Though the first 15 min contains some crunchy pieces of autobiographical memories. Hope there is a part 2 on the way

@cpcnw Год назад

Stallman and Torvalds stood on the shoulders of Thompson and Richie, and Kernighan.

@GodEmperorSuperStar 11 месяцев назад

Ken and Denis stood on the shoulders of Corby.

@AlexRyan 6 месяцев назад

Stallman the pedophile?

@renatopereira2315 Год назад

So basically Ken doesn't even care that much for Unix and had much more fun creating games and algorithms for playing against humans ? 🤣Legend

@ChrisAthanas 4 дня назад

Adventure driven developer

@stanleykubrick8786 Год назад

Why are there no closed captions or transcript? Opportunity lost. The title is also deceptive; it should have said something along the lines of: "Ken Thompson's Role in Chess Algorithms." (it's baffling that the computer industry turned out as advanced as it did).

@miladirani4313 9 месяцев назад

Ken thompson and denis Ritchie forming computer world as we know today

@daixtr 2 месяца назад

Could someone please share the PGN of the game Ken mentioned, where he was put in check and then responded with a checkmate? Or any of Ken's game ....

@GodEmperorSuperStar 11 месяцев назад

14:21 "the PDP-10 is kinda a trashy machine ... the future just left it behind"

@alvarohigino Год назад

Awesome.

@GanryuMVP Месяц назад

The one full length interview of Ken Thompson on the net is all about chess, really? Well at least we can now look forward to a two hour interview with Gary Kasparov on the early years of Unix.