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“I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.”

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Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson is a renowned computer designer, born on February 4, 1943. He has had a significant impact in the field of computer science, particularly in operating systems and programming languages. Thompson was one of the developers of the Unix operating system and the creator of the B programming language, which preceded C. more

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