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Dennis Ritchie
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Dennis Ritchie was an American computer scientist who created the C programming language at Bell Labs in the early 1970s and, together with Ken Thompson, rewrote the Unix operating system in C, which made Unix practical to port across different kinds of computer hardware for the first time. Ritchie and Thompson shared the 1983 ACM Turing Award for their work on Unix.
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1. Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum1997 Fellow citationQuote, 1997 Fellow citation
For his cocreation, with Ken Thompson, of the UNIX operating system, and for development of the C programming language
1. Computer History Museum
1. Computer History Museum
ACM A.M. Turing Award Citations
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With Ken Thompson, for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system.
ACM A.M. Turing Award Citations
Wikipedia: Dennis Ritchie
Wikimedia FoundationEarly life and educationQuote, Early life and education
He created, together with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system, C programming language, and B programming language.
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