Dennis Ritchie
- Born in Bronxville, New York.
- His father was Alistair E. Ritchie, a longtime Bell Labs scientist and co-author of The Design of Switching Circuits on switching circuit theory.
- Mother was McGee Ritche
- Graduated from Summit High School.
- Education from Harvard University
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie
- (b. September 9, 1941;
- found dead October 12, 2011)
- Commonly known by his username dmr,
- Was an American computer scientist
- He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague, Ken Thompson,
- The UNIX operating system.
- Studied Physics and applied mathematics at harvard.
- Described on ciphertext only attacks on the m-209 US cipher machine.
- The Fedora 16 linux distribution was released about one month after hie died.
- 1967 began to work at bell lab computer science Research Center
- 1968 received PhD from harvard university
- His PhD thesis on “program Structure and computational complexity at harvard under supervision of “Patrick C Fischer ”
Notable works
- C programming language
- Unix a multiuser operating system
- Unix programmer’s Manual
Awards
- The Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1983.
- The Hamming Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1990.
- The National Medal of Technology from President Clinton in 1999.
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