Ken Arnold
Ken Arnold in December 25, 2006
Born
Kenneth Cutts Richard Cabot Arnold

(1958-06-13) 13 June 1958 (age 65)
OccupationProgrammer
Known forRogue, 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 (BSD) distribution 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.

At Berkeley

Arnold attended the University of California, Berkeley, after having worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory computer labs for a year, receiving his A.B. in computer science in 1985. At Berkeley, he was president of the Berkeley Computer Club and of the Computer Science Undergraduates Association, and made many contributions to the 2BSD and 4BSD Berkeley Unix distributions, including:

Selected bibliography

See also

References

  1. ^ A Brief History of "Rogue".
  2. ^ Arnold, K. C. R. C. (1977). "Screen Updating and Cursor Movement Optimization: A Library Package". University of California, Berkeley. ((cite journal)): Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ Kenneth C. R. C. Arnold; Elan Amir (December 1992). "Screen Updating and Cursor Movement Optimization: A Library Package".
  4. ^ Note: it was a different Ken Arnold ("Ken W. Arnold") who contributed' to the Ultima game series (see Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness#Development and release).[citation needed]
  5. ^ "Data File Metaformats". Faqs.org. Archived from the original on 2010-08-25. Retrieved 2010-08-22.
  6. ^ Nemeth, Alan G. (June 5, 1982). "Technical Program for Boston Meeting". archive-cr.com. Retrieved 2016-05-30.

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