Dennis Ritchie '63, The Man Behind Your Technology . By Laya Anasu, Crimson Staff Writer “I have memories of standing in circles of people, who didn’t realize who he was.

Modern computing as we know it would not have existed without Dennis Ritchie. Remembering the Father of C and UNIX on what would have been his 80th birthday.

The tributes to Dennis Ritchie won’t match the river of praise that spilled out over the web after the death of Steve Jobs. But they should. CNN values your feedback ...

Dennis Ritchie, 70, a computer scientist who changed modern technology by writing an elegantly simple computer programming language, was found dead at his home in Murray Hill, N.J., his former ...

Dennis Ritchie, whose work creating the C programming language and the Unix operating system became the cornerstone of today's modern world of computing, has died. He was 70. Ritchie's death was ...

Dennis Ritchie, C Programmer And Unix Co-Creator, Has Died : The Two-Way He was a titan of the computer industry who had enormous influence on the work programmers do. The Two-Way.

Dennis Ritchie, who invented C, the computer programming language that underlies the Unix operating system, Microsoft Windows and much of the software running on computers around the world, dies ...

Linus Torvalds once said, in reference to the development of Linux, that he “had hoisted [himself] up on the shoulders of giants.” Among those giants, Dennis Ritchie (aka dmr) was likely the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Dennis Ritchie, a pioneer in computer programming, has died at age 70, according to his longtime employer. Ritchie created the popular C programming language and helped create ...

Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating system passed away on October 8 at the age of 70, leaving a legacy that casts a very long shadow.

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