The Computer History Museum worked with Ritchie's family and Fischer's family and found a copy of the lost dissertation
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Dennis M. Ritchie
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created, together with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system, C programming language, and B programming language.
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science · American computer scientist known for Unix (1941–2011) · computer scientist · programmer · writer · mathematician · also Dennis M. Ritchie, Dennis Ritchie, Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie, A. Ritči, dmr, Ritchie
Born 9 September 1941 · Died 12 October 2011 · Q45575
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2019· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2019).
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2015· 2 entries
Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,839 times.
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Published “limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 37,192 times.
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2011· 6 entries
Died 2011-10-12.
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At the age of 70 at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, where he lived alone
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Awarded Japan Prize (2011).
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“I think the Linux phenomenon is quite delightful, because it draws so strongly on the basis that Unix provided. Linux seems to be the among the healthiest of the direct Unix derivatives, though there are also the various BSD systems as well as the more official offerings from the workstation and mainframe manufacturers.”
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“[C has] the power of assembly language and the convenience of … assembly language.”
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Ritchie, along with Thompson, was awarded the Japan Prize for Information and Communications for his work in the development of the Unix operating system
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2007· 1 entry
As head of System Software Research Department
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded IRI Achievement Award (2006).
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2005· 1 entry
The Industrial Research Institute awarded Ritchie its Achievement Award in recognition of his contribution to science and technology, and to society generally, with his development of the Unix operating system
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Harold Pender Award (2003).
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1999· 1 entry
Thompson and Ritchie jointly received the National Medal of Technology of 1998 from President Bill Clinton for co-inventing the UNIX operating system and the C programming language which, according to the citation for th
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1998· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1998).
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (1997).
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Both Ritchie and Thompson were made Fellows of the Computer History Museum, "for co-creation of the UNIX operating system, and for development of the C programming language
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Computer Pioneer Award (1994).
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1990· 2 entries
Won IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (1990).
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Both Ritchie and Thompson received the IEEE Richard W
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1983· 3 entries
Awarded ACM Software System Award (1983).
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Awarded Turing Award (1983).
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Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing Award "for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system"
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1982).
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1970· 1 entry
Brian Kernighan suggested the name "Unix", a pun on the name "Multics"
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1968· 1 entry
Completed a draft of his PhD thesis on "Computational Complexity and Program Structure" at Harvard under the supervision of Patrick C
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1967· 1 entry
Ritchie began working at the Bell Labs Computing Science Research Center
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1941· 1 entry
Born 1941-09-09.
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