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Dennis M. Ritchie, (born September 9, 1941, Bronxville, Eastchester, New York, U.S.—found dead October 2011, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey), American computer scientist and cowinner of the 1983 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science.

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941–October 12, 2011), [1] [2] [3] [4] was an American computer scientist who "helped shape the digital era." [1] He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the UNIX operating system. [1]

Dennis Ritchie was born in Bronxville, New York, in 1941. He graduated from Harvard University with degrees in physics and applied mathematics and with a PhD in mathematics (1968). His contributions to computing span four decades and have had global impact.

Computing and Telecommunications. A true trailblazer in the field of computer technology, Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie, born on Sept. 9, 1941 in Bronxville, New York, is credited with the 1972 creation of one of the world’s most popular programming languages, “ C .”. Ritchie attended Harvard University where he achieved an undergraduate ...

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – c. October 12, 2011) was an American computer scientist. He is most well known for creating the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system and B programming language.

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was born on Sept. 9, 1941, in Bronxville, N.Y. His father, Alistair, was an engineer at Bell Labs, and his mother, Jean McGee Ritchie, was a homemaker. When he was a ...

C (pronounced / ˈ s iː / – like the letter c) is a general-purpose computer programming language.It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie, and remains very widely used and influential.By design, C's features cleanly reflect the capabilities of the targeted CPUs. It has found lasting use in operating systems, device drivers, protocol stacks, but its use in application software has been ...

Pioneering computer scientist Dennis Ritchie has died after a long illness. Dr Ritchie was one of the creators of the hugely influential Unix operating system and the equally pioneering C ...