[vcf-midatlantic] Ken Thompson ACM Fellow Announcment

[Andrew Diller]

Ken Thompson, a recent VCF Keynote speaker (2019), and creator of UNIX became a ACM fellow today:

https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/thompson_4588371
and
https://awards.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/press-releases/2021/january/fellows-2020.pdf


Kenneth Lane Thompson
Google
For contributions to the development of operating systems theory and for the implementation of the UNIX operating system


2020 ACM FELLOWS RECOGNIZED FOR WORK THAT UNDERPINS CONTEMPORARY COMPUTING

International Group Composed of Leaders Across All of Computing’s Disciplines

New York, NY, January 13, 2021 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 95 members ACM Fellows for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, computer graphics, computational biology, data science, human-computer interaction, software engineering, theoretical computer science, and virtual reality, among other areas. The accomplishments of the 2020 ACM Fellows have driven innovations that ushered in significant improvements across many areas oftechnology, industry, and personal life.


-andy