I've been asleep at the wheel, but I just learned today that Ken Thompson is
at Google (along with Rob Pike and other Unix/Plan9/Inferno Bell Labs
alumni).

Thompson is currently on Ask a Google engineer...
http://moderator.appspot.com/#15/e=c9&t=2d

Q for Thompson: "If you could redesign Unix now, what would you
differently?"
A by Thompson: "The easy answer is 'I would spell creat with an e.'
Remember that Unix was designed 40 years ago. If I could go back to then
[...]"