# Ken Thompson (@ken-thompson)

Ken Thompson is a computer scientist best known for creating Unix at Bell Labs and for later work on programming languages and systems.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Ken Thompson's public record._

## Topics

- [Programming languages](/@ken-thompson/languages.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Systems legacy](/@ken-thompson/systems-legacy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Creating Unix](/@ken-thompson/unix.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/thompson_4588371.cfm
- blog: https://computerhistory.org/profile/ken-thompson/
- blog: https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "ken-thompson", "question": "…"}`.