• Ken Thompson
  • Creator/co-creator of Unix, B (predecessor of C), GO, Plan 9, QED, ed, utf-8,
  • grep
  • Lot of work on regular expressions
  • Wikipedia
  • Awards include: Turing Award, IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, Fellow of the Computer History Museum, National Medal of Technology, Tsutomu Kanai Award, Japan Prize
  • Chess
    • Creation of endgame tablebase
    • Creator of Belle
    • Wrote "chess" for Unix (early chess program)
  • Wikiquote