Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941October 12, 2011), was an American computer scientist who "helped shape the digital era." He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the UNIX operating system. Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing Award from the ACM in 1983, the Hamming Medal from the IEEE in 1990 and the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton in 1999. Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007. He was the 'R' in K&R C.
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Dennis Ritchie's home page at Bell Labs
Biography
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Williamson, Marcus, "Obituary: Dennis Ritchie: Computer software pioneer", The Independent (UK), Monday, 17 October 2011 "Obituary"The Economist (UK), 20 October 2011 Transcript of an interview with Dennis Ritchie – Interview by Michael S. Mahoney Interview with Dennis M. Ritchie – By Manuel Benet (published in LinuxFocus.org in July 1999) "The C Family of Languages: Interview with Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, and James Gosling" - article in Java Report, 5(7), July 2000 and C++ Report, 12(7), July/August 2000 - "The Guru" - article in Linux Magazine, June 2001 Unix.se DMR interview published February 7. 2003 Ritchie and Thompson Receive National Medal of Technology from President Clinton The future according to Dennis Ritchie – LinuxWorld.com 12/4/00 The Limbo Programming Language by Dennis M. Ritchie Dennis Ritchie's video interview June 2011
Turing Award winners
American computer scientists
Scientists from New York (state) Harvard University alumni 1941 births 2011 deaths