Oral History of Ken Thompson
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- Опубліковано 19 січ 2023
- Interviewed by John Mashey on 2005-02-08 in Mountain View, CA
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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.
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Catalog Number: 102630664
Lot Number: X3091.2005 - Наука та технологія
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 UA-cam 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!!
Amazingly as a software genius, he seems very polite, calm and relax. Nothing looks like a geek at all. Impressive.
He doesn’t even have horns. Amazing!
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
Stallman and Torvalds stood on the shoulders of Thompson and Richie, and Kernighan.
Ken and Denis stood on the shoulders of Corby.
Stallman the pedophile?
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
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).
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 ....
Ken thompson and denis Ritchie forming computer world as we know today
Awesome.
14:21 "the PDP-10 is kinda a trashy machine ... the future just left it behind"
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you have ken thompson here and all you ask is about chess instead of Unix? that's really pathetic.