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Dennis Ritchie

Name source
	Things named after this	294727 Dennisritchie


Person
	Employment history	Head of System Software Research Department (Lucent Technologies, 2007) ? (Bell Labs, 1967)
	Education	Physics and Applied Mathematics (Harvard University)
	Profession	Computer Scientist Scientist
	Date of birth	1941-09-09
	Place of birth	Bronxville
	Country of nationality	United States of America
	Gender	Male
	Date of death	2011-10-08


Award Winner
	Awards Won	For their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system (1983, Turing Award, Ken Thompson) for co-inventing the UNIX operating system and the C programming language which together have led to enormous advances in computer hardware, software, and networking systems and stimulated growth of an entire industry, thereby enhancing American leadershi (1999, National Medal of Technology) ? (1982, IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award)


Deceased Person
	Date of death	2011-10-09
	Place of death	Murray Hill Murray Hill, New Jersey


Programming Language Designer
	Languages Designed	C Limbo programming language M4


Author
	Works written	Das C - Lösungsbuch zu ' Programmieren in C'. Ansi C. (2. A.). Programmieren in C. ANSI C (2. A.). Mit dem C- Reference Manual. The C Programming Language
	Book editions published	Das C - Lösungsbuch zu ' Programmieren in C'. Ansi C. (2. A.). Programmieren in C. ANSI C (2. A.). Mit dem C- Reference Manual.


Operating System Developer
	Operating Systems Developed	Inferno Linux kernel Plan 9 Unix