Dennis Ritchie :
Born :September 9, 1941Bronxville, New York, U.S.
Fields :Computer science
Institutions : Lucent Technologies Bell Labs
Alma mater : Harvard University
Known for :ALTRAN
B
BCPL
C
Multics
Unix
Notable
awards :Turing Award National Medal of Technology
Died :found dead October 12, 2011 (aged 70) Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, U.S.
Ritchie was best known as the creator of the C programming language, a key developer of the UNIX operating system, and co-author of The C Programming Language, and was the 'R' in K&R (a common reference to the book's authors Kernighan and Ritchie). In 1983, Ritchie and Thompson jointly received the Turing Award for their development of generic operating systems theory. In 1997, both Ritchie and Thompson were made Fellows of the Computer History Museum, "for co-creation of the UNIX operating system, On April 21, 1999, Thompson and Ritchie jointly received the National Medal of Technology of 1998. In 2011, Ritchie, along with Thompson, was awarded the Japan Prize for Information and Communications for his work. Ritchie was found dead on October 12, 2011, at the age of 70 at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, where he lived alone.[1] First news of his death came from his former colleague.
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