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Dennis Ritchie
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Dennis Ritchie
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie
(September 9, 1941 – October 12, 2011) was an American
computer scientist
. He created the
C programming language
and, with long-time colleague
Ken Thompson
, the
Unix
operating system
. Ritchie and Thompson received the
Turing Award
from the
ACM
in 1983, the
Hamming Medal
from the
IEEE
in 1990 and the
National Medal of Technology
from
President 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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