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

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  2. Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was born on September 9, 1941, in Bronxville, an affluent suburb of New York City, U.S., to Alistair E. Ritchie and Jean McGee Ritchie. He grew up with two brothers, Bill and John, and a sister, Lynn. At the time when Dennis was born, his father had been working for ‘Bell Labs’ for a long time.

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  4. 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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  5. Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941–October 12, 2011), was an American computer scientist who "helped shape the digital era." [1] He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson , the UNIX operating system . [1]

  6. www.computerhistory.org › profile › dennis-ritchieDennis Ritchie - CHM

    Feb 5, 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 ...

  7. Oct 14, 2011 · Dennis M. Ritchie, who helped shape the modern digital era by creating software tools that power things as diverse as search engines like Google and smartphones, was found dead on Wednesday...

  8. Early Fascination with Harvard's Univac I. Ritchie was born on September 9, 1941, in Bronx-ville, New York. He was born to Alistair Ritchie, a switching systems engineer for Bell Laboratories, and Jean McGee Ritchie, a homemaker. Ritchie grew up in New Jersey, and after a childhood in which he did very well academically, he went on to attend ...