I've been asleep at the wheel, but I just learned today that Ken Thompson is at Google (along with Rob Pike and other Unix/Plan9/Inferno Bell Labs alumni).
Thompson is currently on Ask a Google engineer... http://moderator.appspot.com/#15/e=c9&t=2d Q for Thompson: "If you could redesign Unix now, what would you differently?" A by Thompson: "The easy answer is 'I would spell creat with an e.' Remember that Unix was designed 40 years ago. If I could go back to then [...]"
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