Oral History of Ken Thompson

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@dr.strangelove5622 Жыл бұрын

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 KZfaq 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 Жыл бұрын

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

@rysw19 10 ай бұрын

He doesn’t even have horns. Amazing!

@domaincontroller Жыл бұрын

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

@renatopereira2315 11 ай бұрын

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

@cpcnw 11 ай бұрын

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

@GodEmperorSuperStar 10 ай бұрын

Ken and Denis stood on the shoulders of Corby.

@AlexRyan 4 ай бұрын

Stallman the pedophile?

@stanleykubrick8786 Жыл бұрын

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).

@GanryuMVP 2 күн бұрын

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.

@daixtr Ай бұрын

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 ....