Dennis Ritchie
Computer Scientist
1941 – 2011
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Who was Dennis Ritchie?
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. 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 and commonly known by his username dmr.
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- Born
- Sep 9, 1941
Bronxville - Also known as
- dmr
- Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
Physics and Applied Mathematics
- Harvard University
- Employment
- Head of System Software Research Department, Lucent
( - 2007) - Bell Labs
(1967 - )
- Head of System Software Research Department, Lucent
- Died
- Oct 12, 2011
Berkeley Heights
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on July 23, 2013
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