Dennis Ritchie

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Dennis Ritchie

Computer Science

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#212

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#220

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#104

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According to Wikipedia, Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He is best known for creating 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. Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007. He was the "R" in K&R C, and commonly known by his username dmr.

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Dennis Ritchie's Published Works

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The C Programming Language (1978) (2133)
The UNIX time-sharing system (1974) (668)
The C Programming Language, Second Edition (1988) (541)
A stream input-output system (1990) (373)
The UNIX time-sharing system (1978) (205)
The complexity of loop programs (1967) (193)
The development of the C language (1993) (172)
USENIX Association (2000) (135)
The UNIX system: A stream input-output system (1984) (112)
The Inferno™ operating system (1997) (99)
UNIX time-sharing system: Portability of c programs and the UNIX system (1978) (80)
The UNIX system: The evolution of the UNIX time-sharing system (1979) (72)
The C programming language - ANSI C - Second edition (1988) (63)
UNIX time-sharing system: The C programming language (1978) (60)
The Styx® architecture for distributed systems (1999) (46)
UNIX time-sharing system: A retrospective (1978) (43)
A Classification of the Recursive Functions (1972) (41)
Interprocess communication in the ninth edition unix system (1990) (37)
The UNIX time-sharing system (1986) (36)
The Limbo Programming Language (2005) (20)
The development of the C programming language (1996) (19)
The c language calling sequence (1981) (18)
Reflections on software research (1984) (16)
The UNIX Time-Sharing System (Reprint). (1983) (12)
C Reference Manual (1983) (11)
The state of C (1988) (5)
On the Security of UNIX (2007) (4)
A Guest Facility for Unicos * (4)
C程式語言 = The C programming language (2002) (3)
Variable-size arrays in C (1990) (3)
Release .0, The Beginning (1989) (1)
Turing Award Lecture Reflections on Software Research (1)
4.1 Pseudo-composition 4.2 Pseudo-inheritance 3.2 Idioms 2.1 Patterns Development Design Patterns vs. Language Design (1998) (0)
Programovací jazyk C : The C Programming Language (Orig.) (1988) (0)
Reflections on Software Research Can the circumstances that existed in Bell Labs that nurtured the UNIX project be produced again (1984) (0)
Structure of a program, Input and Output Variables and Types, Arithmetic and Relational Operators, Control Structures, Functions, Arrays and Pointers, File Handling. (2012) (0)
Experience with Unicos on the Cray X-MP (0)
The UNIX Time-Sharing System (Abstract). (1973) (0)