People

• 2019: Center 1127 Computing Sciences Research Alumni
  • maint by Gerard J. Holzmann (en:Wiki)
• 1986(1971-): A Research UNIX Reader: Annotated Excerpts from the Programmer's Manual
  • by Douglas McIlroy
• 2005: Unix people at princeton.edu
  • by Michael S. Mahoney (Wiki)

See also:

• People at the TUHS Wiki
• Spinellis source code repository, which annotates known code contributions.

Interviews

These are interviews with people who worked on Unix, speaking about Unix or the personal affect it had on their lives.

• 1999: Ken Thompson (PDF)
  • Unix and Beyond - Computer Magazine
• 2011: Dennis Ritchie
  • by Daniel Sieberg for ABC News
• 2015: Brian Kernighan interviewed about UNIX
  • for Computerphile
• 2016: Brian Kernighan talking about C, UNIX and computer careers
  • C and Unix at Bell Labs for VCF East 10
• 2017: Brian Kernighan interviewed by John Mashey
  • Oral History of Brian Kernighan - Computer History Museum
• 2019: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan for VCF East 2019
• 2020: Brian Kernighan interviewed on CoreCursive podcast
  • The Birth of UNIX
• 2021: Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman interviewed by Leah Hoffmann for ACM
  • Shaping the Foundations of Programming Languages

Retrospectives

• 2001: Ken, Unix and Games
  • by Dennis Ritchie

Awards

• 1998: National Medal of Technology
  • presented to Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie by President Bill Clinton
• 2011: Japan Prize
  • acceptance speeches by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
• 2011: Japan Prize Ceremony for Ken Thompson
• 2019: The Thompson and Ritchie Story
  • presented to Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie by National Inventors Hall of Fame
• 2020: ACM Turing Award (Press)
  • presented to Al Aho and Jeffrey Ullman for compiler books