Oral History of Ken Thompson

[@dr.strangelove5622]

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 KZbin 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!!

[@domaincontroller]

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

[@cpcnw]

Stallman and Torvalds stood on the shoulders of Thompson and Richie, and Kernighan.

[@GodEmperorSuperStar]

Ken and Denis stood on the shoulders of Corby.

[@AlexRyan]

Stallman the pedophile?

[@fikrirazaq8373]

Amazingly as a software genius, he seems very polite, calm and relax. Nothing looks like a geek at all. Impressive.

[@rysw19]

He doesn’t even have horns. Amazing!

[@miladirani4313]

Ken thompson and denis Ritchie forming computer world as we know today

[@stanleykubrick8786]

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).

[@renatopereira2315]

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

[@ChrisAthanas]

Adventure driven developer

[@GodEmperorSuperStar]

14:21 "the PDP-10 is kinda a trashy machine ... the future just left it behind"

[@daixtr]

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 ....

[@alvarohigino]

Awesome.

[@TuranGerger-e8g]

🌼🌷🌺

[@GanryuMVP]

The one full length interview of Ken Thompson on the net is all about chess, really? Well at least we can now look forward to a two hour interview with Gary Kasparov on the early years of Unix.

[@RamonCossio-h8v]

420 like 🎉

[@PauloConstantino167]

you have ken thompson here and all you ask is about chess instead of Unix? that's really pathetic.

[@montamms]

the interviewer john mashey contributed to unix