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  1. Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – c. October 12, 2011) was an American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson , the Unix operating system and B programming language . [3]

  2. Dennis M. Ritchie (born September 9, 1941, Bronxville, Eastchester, New York, U.S.—found dead October 2011, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey) American computer scientist and cowinner of the 1983 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science. Ritchie and the American computer scientist Kenneth L. Thompson were cited jointly for ...

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  3. Oct 14, 2011 · Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was born on Sept. 9, 1941, in Bronxville, N.Y. His father, Alistair, was an engineer at Bell Labs, and his mother, Jean McGee Ritchie, was a homemaker. When he was a ...

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  5. computerhistory.org › profile › dennis-ritchieDennis Ritchie - CHM

    Mar 6, 2024 · Dennis Ritchie was born in Bronxville, New York, in 1941. He graduated from Harvard University with degrees in physics and applied mathematics and with a PhD in mathematics (1968). His contributions to computing span four decades and have had global impact. While at Bell Labs' Computing Sciences Research Center in the early 1970s, he created ...

  6. Oct 12, 2011 · Born Sept. 9, 1941 - Died Oct. 12, 2011. Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson’s creation of the UNIX operating system and the C programming language were pivotal developments in the progress of computer science. Today, 50 years after its beginnings, UNIX and UNIX-like systems continue to run machinery from supercomputers to smartphones. The UNIX ...

  7. lemelson.mit.edu › resources › dennis-ritchieDennis Ritchie | Lemelson

    Oct 12, 2011 · A true trailblazer in the field of computer technology, Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie, born on Sept. 9, 1941 in Bronxville, New York, is credited with the 1972 creation of one of the world’s most popular programming languages, “ C .”. Ritchie attended Harvard University where he achieved an undergraduate degree in physics in 1963, and a ...

  8. Dennis Ritchie. Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – October 12, 2011), commonly known by his username dmr, 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.

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