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Dennis Ritchie
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie is an American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and with longtime colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system and the B programming language. Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing Award from ACM in 1983, the Hamming Medal from IEEE in 1990 and the National Medal of Technology from President Bill Clinton in 1999. 2007. He is the "R" in K&R C, and is commonly known by its username dmr.
BornSeptember 9, 1941, Bronxville, New York, U.S.
Diedc. October 12, 2011, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsLucent Technologies, Bell Labs
Alma materHarvard University (Ph.D, 1968)
Known forALTRAN, B, BCPL, C, Multics, Unix
Notable awardsIEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1982), Turing Award (1983), National Medal of Technology (1998), IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (1990), Computer Pioneer Award (1994), Computer History Museum Fellow (1997), Harold Pender Award (2003), Japan Prize (2011)

About Dennis Ritchie

Computer Scientist Dennis Ritchie was born in Bronxville, New York, United States on September 9, 1941. He dies at the age of 70, on October 12, 2011.

He is credited with helping to usher in the current digital era as the creator of the 'C' programming language and the Unix operating system. For his efforts, he received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1983.

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Dennis Ritchie before becoming famous

Dennis Ritchie was born in the Zodiac sign Virgo (The Maiden), and 1941 is also the year of Serpent (蛇) in the Chinese Zodiac.

Harvard University awarded him degrees in physics and applied mathematics.

Achievement of Dennis Ritchie

For co-creating the UNIX operating system and designing the C programming language, he was named a Fellow of the Computer History Museum in 1997.

Dennis Ritchie's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

Alistair E. Ritchie, a Bell Labs physicist, was his father.

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President US President Bill Clinton awarded him the National Medal of Technology.

Dennis Ritchie Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Dennis Ritchie updated on March 15 2023.