Ken Thompson
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American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
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Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109
Lex Fridman
A key figure in the early UNIX days and one of the creators of UNIX, who famously wrote the initial operating system in three weeks on a PDP-7.
UNIX Special: Profs Kernighan & Brailsford - Computerphile
Computerphile
Credited with the implementation of the Unix pipeline mechanism.
Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160
Lex Fridman
One of the Unix founders involved in creating the Go programming language.
Hacking on the PDP1 Raspberry Pi Emulator - Computerphile
Computerphile
The developer credited with developing Unix on the PDP-7 in 1969.
AI Dev 26 x SF | Carter Rabasa: File Systems Are the New Primitive for AI Agents
DeepLearningAI
Co-inventor of Unix, whose work laid the foundation for powerful and simple systems built on atomic building blocks.