Researching Rob Pike
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 8707 people with the Pike surname? In that year Pike was ranked number 468 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Rob means "Form of ROBERT. bright fame" and is of Not available or unknown origin.
Records of Rob Pike on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Rob Pike and the Pike Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 10786 people with the Pike surname in the UK? Pike is now ranked number 533 for popularity in the UK. |
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| Did you know that there are currently 33421 people with the Pike surname in the USA? Pike is ranked number 146 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Rob Pike
Rob Pike
Robert "Rob" C. Pike (born 1956) is a Canadian programmer and author. He is best known for his work on the Go programming language and at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team and was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as the Limbo programming language.
He also co-developed the Blit graphical terminal for Unix; before that he wrote the first window system for Unix in 1981. Pike is the sole inventor named in US patent 4,555,775.
Over the years Pike has written many text editors; sam and acme are the most well known and are still in active use and development.
Pike, with Brian Kernighan, is the co-author of The Practice of Programming and The Unix Programming Environment. With Ken Thompson he is the co-creator of UTF-8. Pike also developed lesser systems such as the vismon program for displaying faces of email authors.
Pike also appeared once on Late Night with David Letterman, as a technical assistant to the comedy duo Penn & Teller.
Pike has worked for Google since 2002. While at Google, he has been involved in the creation of the programming languages Go and Sawzall.
Pike is married to author and illustrator Renée French; the couple live in both the US and Australia.
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