Thursday 20 October 2011

Dennis Ritchie dies at the age of 70

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By Tim Kenneally
TheWrap.com

The world has lost another computer pioneer. Dennis Ritchie, the computer scientist who invented the C programming language and co-developed the Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70.

"Ritchie was under the radar. His name was not a household name at all, but ... if you had a microscope and could look in a computer, you'd see his work everywhere inside."

Born in Bronxville, NY, Ritchie began working at Bell Labs — where his father was a scientist — in 1967, earning his Ph.D. from Harvard the following year. He retired from Bell in 2007.

Read more about the great man
The man who commanded the computer world....
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44910730/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/#.Tp_7_FnKmd8

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