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Article: New Computing Award Goes to Bell Labs Researcher Ken Thompson; Award Recognizes Impact of UNIX System On Computing and Communications.
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- March 25, 1999
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MURRAY HILL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 1999--The Computer Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has chosen Bell Labs researcher Ken Thompson to receive the first Tsutomu Kanai Award.
The award, endowed with a 20-million yen grant from Hitachi Ltd. in 1995, was established in honor of Dr. Kanai, who joined Hitachi as a researcher in 1958 and retires as president this month. The award recognizes contributions in the area of distributed computing systems.
The IEEE Computer Society formally announced the 1999 Kanai Award this week in Tokyo, at the Fourth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems. It ...