---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bharathi Subramanian <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:35 AM Subject: [Ilugc] RIP: Dennis Ritchie (Oct 9th 2011) To: Indian Linux Users Group - Chennai <[email protected]>
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 - October 9, 2011) was an American computer scientist notable for developing C and for having influence on other programming languages, as well as operating systems such as Multics and Unix. He received the Turing Award in 1983 and the National Medal of Technology 1998 on April 21, 1999. Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007. https://plus.google.com/u/0/101960720994009339267/posts/ENuEDDYfvKP?hl=en http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie Bye :( -- Bharathi Subramanian _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘ -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
