Ken Thompson
![[[Brian Kernighan]] (left) and Ken Thompson (right) in 2019](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Brian_Kernighan_and_Ken_Thompson.jpg)
Other notable contributions included his work on regular expressions and early computer text editors QED and ed, the definition of the UTF-8 encoding, and his work on computer chess that included the creation of endgame tablebases and the chess machine Belle. He won the Turing Award in 1983 with his long-term colleague Dennis Ritchie. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: 2005