DENNIS MACALISTAIR RITCHIE
Dennis Macalistair Ritchie was an American
computer scientist. He was born on September
9
th, 1941 in Bronxville, New York.When he was a child, he moved to summit, Nueva
Jersey with his family and he finished the school
in Summit High School in 1959. He got a degree as physics and math at Harvard
University in 1963.
In 1967, Ritchie began to work at the Bell Labs. In this place, he worked in pair with Ken
Thompson and both developed UNIX, it is an operating system, it was launched on
November 3rd, 1971. Ritchie created the popular C programming language too. This
programming language helped create the Unix operating software. Both are two of
software tools most important in the history, the C programming is still popular and Unix
was a software influential to create other softwares very popular now, example: Linux.
In 1973, Ritchie published a research paper on the C programming language, and later
in 1980, he and his colleague, Brian Kernighan, published a book: The C Programming
Leaguage, a popular book between software developers.
Ritchie and his colleague, Ken Thompson, received different awards: The Turing Award
(1983), IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (1990), EE. UU. National Medal of Technology (1999) and Japan Prize for
Information and Communications (2011)
Finally, Ritchie retired in 2007 as head of System Software Research Department in
Lucent Technologies and he was found dead on October 12, 2011 at his home in
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
Bibliographic references
- https://disenowebakus.net/dennis-ritchie.php
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie
-https://hipertextual.com/2011/10/dennis-ritchie-que-seria-del-mundo-sin-su-legado
-https://platzi.com/tutoriales/1936-lenguaje-c/7063-el-creador-de-lenjuage-c-quien-fuedennis-ritchie/