300909 Kenthompson Discovered 2008 Jan. 30 by T. Glinos and D. H. Levy at the Jarnac Observatory, Vail. Kenneth Lane Thompson (b. 1943) is a computer scientist and winner of the Turing, Hamming Medal, National Medal of Technology and Japan Prize awards. He created the B programming language, the UTF-8 character encoding and the Belle chess machine, and was co-creator of the UNIX and Plan 9 operating systems. NOTE: some special characters may not display properly (any characters within {} are an attempt to place the proper accent above a character) Reference: 20120207/MPCPages.arc Last Updated: 2012-02-09