Dennis
MacAlistair
Ritchie
Born in Bronxville, Westchester, New York, United States
Ancestors 
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 70
in Berkeley Heights Township, Union, New Jersey, United States
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Biography
Dennis Ritchie is Notable.
Computer pioneer who creative the C programming language and co-created the Unix operating system
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was born in 1941 in Bronxville, New York. [1] His parents are Alistair English Ritchie and Jean Collins McGee. His father, Alistair, was a longtime Bell Labs scientist and co-author of The Design of Switching Circuits on switching circuit theory. In the 1950 census, he lived in Summit, Union, New Jersey, United States.[2]
He was a computer scientist. He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system. He was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007. [3] Variants of Unix have become the most widely used operating systems on the Internet. He was awarded the Turing Award from the ACM in 1983, the Hamming Medal from the IEEE in 1990, and the National Medal of Technology from President Bill Clinton in 1999.
He died at age 70 on 12 October 2011 in New Jersey, United States.[4]
Sources
- ↑
Birth:
"New York State, Birth Index, 1881-1942"
New York State Department of Health; Albany, NY, USA; New York State Birth Index; Certificate Number: 72880
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 61667 #4686033 (accessed 15 August 2023)
Dennis M Ritchie born on 9 Sep 1941 in Bronxville, New York, USA. - ↑
1950 Census:
"1950 United States Federal Census"
National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Summit, Union, New Jersey; Roll: 2488; Page: 71; Enumeration District: 20-226
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 62308 #165717198 (accessed 15 August 2023)
Dennis M Ritchie (8), single son, in household of Alistair E Ritchie (36) in Summit, Union, New Jersey, USA. Born in New York. - ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (Find A Grave: Memorial #78320781: accessed 24 August 2023), memorial page for Dr Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (9 Sep 1941–12 Oct 2011), Find a Grave Memorial ID 78320781; Burial Details Unknown; Maintained by JohnRobert Mauney (contributor 47310410).
- ↑
Death:
"New Jersey, U.S., Death Index, 1848-1878, 1901-2017"
New Jersey State Archives; Trenton, New Jersey; New Jersey Death Index, 2001-2017
Ancestry Record 61260 #522269 (accessed 15 August 2023)
Dennis Macalistair Ritchie's death occured 12 Oct 2011 (born 9 Sep 1941) in New Jersey, USA.
See also:
- Wikipedia: Dennis Ritchie
- Wikidata: Item Q45575, en:Wikipedia
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