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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 ...
Apr 2, 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 ...
Oct 13, 2011 · Thu 13 Oct 2011 17.25 EDT. The American computer scientist Dennis Ritchie, who has died aged 70 after suffering from cancer and heart disease, was one of the co-inventors of the Unix operating ...
Oct 13, 2011 · Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating system passed away on October 8 at the age of 70, leaving a legacy that casts a very long shadow.
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 ...
Oct 13, 2011 · 13 October 2011. Dr Ritchie (middle) and Mr Thompson were awarded the US National Medal of Technology for their work on Unix. Pioneering computer scientist Dennis Ritchie has died after a long ...
Oct 13, 2011 · Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Ritchie (known by the username “dmr”) was part of ...
