Rob Pike | |
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![]() Rob Pike at OSCON 2010 | |
Born | 1956 (age 67–68) |
Nationality | Canadian |
Alma mater | |
Occupation | Software engineer |
Known for | Plan 9, UTF-8, Go |
Spouse | Renée French |
Website | herpolhode |
Robert Pike (born 1956) is a Canadian programmer and author. He is best known for his work on the Go programming language while working at Google[1][2] and the Plan 9 operating system while working at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team.[1]
Pike wrote the first window system for Unix in 1981.[3][non-primary source needed] He is the sole inventor named in the US patent for overlapping windows on a computer display.[4]
With Brian Kernighan, he is the co-author of The Practice of Programming and The Unix Programming Environment.[1] With Ken Thompson, he is the co-creator of UTF-8 character encoding.[1]
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