The January 2008 issue of the Communications of the ACM (CACM)<br>celebrated 50 years of publication.&nbsp; The issue contains numerous articles <br>written by a variety of computing gurus.&nbsp; In more than one article I came <br>
across reference to Ken Thompson&#39;s ACM Turing award paper titled <br>&quot;Reflections on Trusting Trust.&quot;&nbsp; (1984)<br><br><a href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html">http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
</a><br><br>Thompson&#39;s homepage was last modified in 2002 with one exception--in <br>2007 he changed his email address and it now appears as though Thompson <br>has joined Pike (and other Bell Labs alumni) at Google.&nbsp; Note:&nbsp; Vinton Cerf,
<br>co-creator of the Internet, is also a Googler.<br><br>---<br><br>Since I&#39;m typing in an email message... here&#39;s another document that <br>Dennis Ritchie has on his homepage.&nbsp; The creation of the pipe is what<br>
caused the Unix shell to become a powerful computing tool.<br><br>Why Ken Had To Invent | <br><a href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/mdmpipe.html">http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/mdmpipe.html</a><br><br><br>