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Ken Arnold

Ken Arnold is a person who is famous for his contributions in the field of computer programming. He is like a very smart teacher who knows everything about how to tell a computer what to do.

Imagine you have a robot, and you want it to do something for you. You can't directly tell the robot what to do because it doesn't understand your language. The same thing happens with computers. You need to use special instructions, called computer code, to tell the computer what to do.

Ken Arnold is one of the people who helped create some of these instructions. He wrote computer code that helped other programmers write programs more easily.

He is also famous for creating the Unix operating system. An operating system is a special software that helps the computer run smoothly. It's like the captain of a ship who makes sure everything is going well. Unix is used in many computers and helped make it easier for people to use them.

In short, Ken Arnold is really smart about computers and helped make them easier to use.