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Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Ritchie

American computer scientist

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Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – c. October 12, 2011) was an American computer scientist.[1] He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system and B programming language.[1] Ritchie and Thompson were awarded the Turing Award from the ACM in 1983, the Hamming Medal from the IEEE in 1990 and the National Medal of Technology from President Bill Clinton in 1999. Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007. He was the "R" in K&R C, and commonly known by his username dmr.

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Birthdate
September 9, 1941
Birthplace
Bronxville, New York
Bronxville, New York
Date of Death
October 12, 2011
Place of Death
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
Author of
The C Programming Language
The C Programming Language
Location
United States
United States
Educated at
Summit High School (New Jersey)
Summit High School (New Jersey)
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Harvard University
Harvard University
Awards Received
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2019 National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductee
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1983 Turing Award
Occupation
Scientist
Scientist
Computer scientist
Computer scientist
Programmer
Programmer
Writer
Writer
Mathematician
Mathematician

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Birth Name
Dennis Ritchie
Citizenship
United States
United States
Doctoral Advisor
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Patrick C. Fischer
Google Scholar ID
w1WB5d0AAAAJ
Notable Work
C (programming language)
C (programming language)
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
The C Programming Language
The C Programming Language
Unix
Unix
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BCPL
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B (programming language)
Multics
Multics
Pseudonym
dmr
Wikidata ID
Q45575

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