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Name: Dennis Ritchie
Birth Date: 1941
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: computer scientist

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Biography of Dennis Ritchie
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Dennis Ritchie is a computer scientist most well-known for his work with Kenneth Thompson in creating UNIX, a computer operating system. Ritchie also went on to develop the high-level and enormously popular computer programming language C. For their...


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Dennis M. Ritchie Summary
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American software engineer who won the Alan M. Turing Award for developing, with Kenneth Thompson, the Unix operating system in 1969. Widely regarded as one of the fastest and the most stable operating systems available, Unix forms the basis for a very...
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Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (born September 9, 1941) is an American computer scientist notable for his influence on ALTRAN, B, BCPL, C, Multics, and Unix. He received the Turing Award in 1983 and the National Medal of Technology in 1998. Ritchie was the...


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Matthew Ritchie
01/01/2003: 555 words, approx. 2 pages
ANDREA ROSEN GALLERY Matthew Ritchie is a self-professed cosmologist, a connoisseur of information structures whose templates include action painting, superstring theory, medieval hagiographies, molecular biology, and comic books. Though his paintings and installations bear individual titles, they are best understood as multidimensional or...
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The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
RITCHIE.(Obit)
04/27/2003: 366 words, approx. 1 pages
Albert David Ritchie, Jr. April 17, 2003 Albert D. Ritchie, 94, of Ithaca, NY, died suddenly April 17, 2003 of pneumonia. He was born in Saratoga Springs on October 18, 1908, the third and youngest October child of Emily Louise Olmsted and...
 


 

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