IanDennis Ritchie
November 2nd 2011 01:36
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (b. September 9, 1941; d. October 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 and commonly known by his username dmr.
Dennis Ritchie's death came a week after the death of Steve Jobs; although Ritchie's death did not receive as much media coverage, computer historians believe his influence was comparable.
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.
Dennis Ritchie's death came a week after the death of Steve Jobs; although Ritchie's death did not receive as much media coverage, computer historians believe his influence was comparable.
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