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Biography
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Awards(10)
Education(2)
Dennis M. Ritchie (* 9. September 1941 in Bronxville; † 12. October 2011 in Berkeley Heights) was an american computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language. He was 70 years old. His education included Harvard University and Summit High School. He received 10 awards, including Turing Award, National Medal of Technology and Innovation. His cause of death was testicular cancer.
Life Events
13 Events1941
Born in Bronxville, Westchester County
1967
Bell Labs
until 2007
1982
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
1983
Turing Award
1983
ACM Software System Award
1990
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
1994
Computer Pioneer Award
1997
Computer History Museum Fellow
1998
National Medal of Technology and Innovation
2003
Harold Pender Award
2006
IRI Achievement Award
2011
Japan Prize
2011