Computer scientist
Ken Thompson
Co-created Unix, wrote the first version over one summer holiday, and later co-designed Go.
Kenneth Lane Thompson is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating system. 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.
- Born
- 1943-02-04, New Orleans, USAA Thursday
- At birth
- Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Aquarius
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1943-02-04, New Orleans, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/Chicagothe zone used then
America/ChicagoThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aquarius | 15°00′ | Direct |
| Moon | Aquarius | 11°13′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 24°58′ | Retrograde |
| Venus | Pisces | 4°09′ | Direct |
| Mars | Capricorn | 6°29′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Cancer | 17°08′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Gemini | 5°35′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Gemini | 0°34′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Libra | 1°47′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Leo | 5°54′ | Retrograde |
Ken Thompson is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Ken Thompson was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.