Ken Arnold | |
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![]() Ken Arnold in December 25, 2006 | |
Born | Kenneth Cutts Richard Cabot Arnold 13 June 1958 |
Occupation | Programmer |
Known for | Rogue, contributions to BSD UNIX |
Kenneth Cutts Richard Cabot Arnold (born 1958) is an American computer programmer well known as one of the developers of the 1980s dungeon-crawling video game Rogue , [1] for his contributions to the original Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) version of Unix, for his books and articles about C and C++, e.g., his 1980s–1990s UNIX Review column, "The C Advisor", and his high-profile work on the Java platform.
Arnold attended the University of California, Berkeley, after having worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory computer labs for a year, receiving his A.B. degree in computer science in 1985. At Berkeley, he was president of the Berkeley Computer Club (later known as the Computer Science Undergraduates Association), and made many contributions to the 2BSD and 4BSD Berkeley Unix distributions, including: