Birthdate: 1956 AD
Birthplace: Canada
Rob Pike is a renowned programmer and author recognized for his substantial impact on the technology industry. His notable contributions to the field include the development of the Go programming language at Google and the Plan 9 operating system at Bell Labs. Pike is highly regarded for pioneering the first window system for Unix, securing a US patent for overlapping windows on computer displays, and co-authoring influential programming books with Brian Kernighan. His collaboration with Ken Thompson led to the creation of the widely adopted UTF-8 character encoding.
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