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Ken Thomson was (and is) also involved with creating Go and he was also one of the writers of Unix.

Shadowy data brokers ( But we learned about World-Check, a confidential database owned by the financial information giant Thomson Reuters.

Publishers don't like being held hostage by Thomson Reuters (who controls impact factor) and having to constantly worry about the next year's impact factor.

Good data from Thomson Reuters or something like starts at $5k/mo.

There was a scandal last year when it was discovered that Thomson Reuters paid the University of Michigan for early access to their market reports.

The banks confidentially send their results for each of the 15 loan maturities - ranging from overnight to one year - to the market intelligence firm Thomson Reuters.

It was rejected 4 times by the examiner, the last rejection citing patents 5,986,712 (owned by Thomson Electronics) and 6,310,897 (owned by Sony).

Two years ago, I found out Thomson Reuters were in the process of outsourcing 80% of their development in a combination of H1-B's and work going directly to India.

When you watch this presentation video of 1978 at AT&T where Ken Thomson explains Unix and type some commands on his VT-52 and you think: all of this is still current knowledge, and all of his explanations still hold true.

As others have mentioned, Thomson and LexisNexis have the law firm market nearly locked down (for the time being, at least, as even this is changing), so we decided to target a slightly different space.

Random anecdote: Was told by a trader a few years back that one trading desk had both Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters systems next to one another and once they were able to capitalise on Bloomberg being a few seconds faster to make a net gain.

Somewhat unrelated, but if you had to pick an American school that Toronto would be 'our version of', Harvard is probably a better bet than Columbia: > from 2000 to 2004 U of T professors produced more publications in the fields indexed by Thomson Scientific than faculty at any other public research university worldwide...

X-rays will prove to be a hoax." -- William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, British scientist, 1899.

Go buy Thomson Web of Science." I'm sure Maadhav in India will be very happy and rest assured that no incomplete information is on the Internet.

It took something like 6 years[0] to formalize the proof of Feit-Thomson, one of the first "long" proofs in group theory, and that was done by experts who understood both Coq and the proof.

I've been to at least 200 software conferences in my life and never heard speakers like Linus, Ken Thomson, RMS, Gordon Letwin, DHH, Anders Hejlsberg mention "correctness guarantees".

Thomson Reuters is a data broker, their clients were doing the trading.

The Downs-Thomson Paradox states that adding more peak driving capacity draws a corresponding number of people out of transit and into personal vehicles, causing overall traffic to remain the same or worsen.

The only good reason I can think of, discounting the fire hazard, is the poor reputation of high pressure hydrogen tanks for the reverse Joule-Thomson effect (i.e., unlike most gasses, hydrogen heats up when expanded out of a nozzle), but according to [1] it is not enough to cause ignition.