Who is Dennis Ritchie?

Dennis M. Ritchie

Year	Event
1941	Born in Bronxville, N.Y.
1963	Graduates from Harvard University with a B.S. in Physics
1968	Receives from Harvard University a Ph.D. in mathematics
1967	Joins Bell Labs, following his father, Alistair E. Ritchie, who had a long career there
1968	Joins the Bell Labs team working on Multics, a joint effort of Bell Labs, MIT and GE to develop a general computer operating system
1972	Creates C language
1989	Receives with Ken Thompson the NEC C&C Prize for significant contributions to computer technology
1983	Named Bell Labs Fellow
1988	Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
1990	Appointed head, System Software Research Department in the Computer Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, N.J.
1995	Heads the effort to create the Plan 9 operating system
1996	Heads the effort to create the Inferno(TM) operating system

1998	Awarded with Kenneth Thompson the U.S. National Medal of Technology for the development of the UNIX system

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