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Ritchie had published many book since year 2000. The book lists are: Newsmakers 2000; Notable Scientists: From 1900 to the Present; World of Computer Science; Almanac of Famous People
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Dennis Ritchie was born on September 9, 1941 in Bronx-ville, New York. His father Alistair Ritchie was a switching systems engineer for Bell Labs. His mother Jean McGee Ritchie was a homemaker. Ritchie had grew up in New Jersey
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Ritchie started working at the Bell Labs Computing Sciences Research Center, he worked on developing an operating system for more portable computers.
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Ritchie wen to Harvard University to study science, later on he got a job in Massachusetts Institute of Technology to learn more about computer programming. He got his degree in the year of 1968
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After he got in Bell Labs, he helped for the BCPL language on the GE 645 and GE 635 Mulitics machine with a complier. He also wrote a complier for ALTRAN and system for symbolic calculation.
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Later on Ritchie's partner Kenneth Thompson had joined Bell Labs also, they both watched how minicomputer became more and more popular. they had been working for months and wrote the Unix operating system which allow people to move data around from disk to screen to printer and back to disk for storage
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even though Unix was good to use already but it still did not do well on multiple computers so Ritchie combined many aspects of the old and new systems to create C programming language.
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Ritchie and Thompson had developed Unix operating system using C language instead of machine language, also they changed to smaller machines instead of large ones. Also Bell Labs became Lucent Technologies Inc. which began to sell Unix to developers. It led to Ritchie's success.
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Ritchie received many awards such as the ACM for the outstanding paper of 1794 in systems and language in 1974. The IEEE Emmanuel Piore Award in 1982.
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later on there are many languages came out such as C++ and Java which are all based on C language. they rewrote the C language to created those language
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Ritchie had won lots of awards in the year of 1983 such as the Bell Laboratories Fellow and Association for computing Machinery Turing Award in 1983.
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Ritchie had elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering in 1988 and became the recipient of the United States National Medal of Technology.
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Ritchie became the leader of the Computing Techniques Research Department at Lucent Technologies. He also wrote applications and managed the growth of already released operating systems.
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Ritchie retired from Lucent Technologies System
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Ritchie suffered from hear disease % prostate cancer and died at his home
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