When you think of the Unix and C revolution that grew out of Bell Labs, there are a few famous names. Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, and Brian Kernighan come to mind. After all, the K in both K&R C and ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

July 9, 2008 (Computerworld Australia) SYDNEY – Computerworld interviewed AT&T alumni Stephen C. Johnson about the development of Yet Another Compiler Compiler (YACC), part of a series of ...