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Dennis Ritchie, the creator of UNIX and C programming languages is born. -
Ritchie graduates with a BS in Physics from Harvard University. -
Ritchie begins working at Bell Labs' Computing Science Research Center. -
Ritchie, along with his friend, Ken Thompson, assisted on the development of the Multics Operating System. -
Ritchie receives his Doctorate in Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. -
Ritchie and Thompson co-develop and release UNIX and B Language. To see Ritchie explain UNIX, click the link below. https://youtu.be/JoVQTPbD6UY?si=6CV3GoGp1wIvWKAh -
With some prior development from Thompson, Ritchie and another friend, Brian Kernighan, develop C programming language. -
Ritchie wins the ACM Turing award, a computing award. For further information on the award please refer to the link below.
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Ritchie was named as a fellow at Bell Labs. -
Ritchie becomes of Head of System Software Research Department in Bell Labs’ Computer Sciences Research Center. -
Ritchie received the IEEE (Richard W. Hamming) Medal which is awarded to those with outstanding achievements in information sciences and technology. -
Ritchie led the development of the Plan 9 Operating system. -
Ritchie led the development of the Inferno operating system which uses Limbo operating language. -
Ritchie, alongside Thompson, receives the National Medal of Technology for 1998 from former president Bill Clinton. They received this for the development of UNIX and C. -
Ritchie retires from Bell Labs after 40 years of service. -
With Ritchie's passing many programming scholars and enthusiast's were disheartened by the fact that his death wasn't as widely recognized as it should've been. This is due to the fact that Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs, died just 5 days earlier.