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Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Ritchie
Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language (d. 2011)

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system and B programming language. Ritchie and Thompson were 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.

9 September 1941

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