# Rob Pike Canadian computer scientist from the [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]] Unix group who co-created [[wiki/Plan 9|Plan 9 from Bell Labs]] and the Inferno operating systems, and later co-created the [[wiki/Go Programming Language|Go programming language]] at Google with [[wiki/Ken Thompson|Ken Thompson]]. His career trajectory is part of the Bell Labs alumni diaspora documented in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].