another Sad announcement, a great NJ inventor and father of Unix/C passed
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PostPosted: Thu, Oct 13 2011, 11:05 am EDT    Post subject: another Sad announcement, a great NJ inventor and father of Unix/C passed Reply with quote

Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and C, dies
Announced by Bell Labs today:


Its inventor, Dennis Ritchie, whose death after a long illness was reported on Wednesday and confirmed on Thursday by Bell Labs, similarly embodied a unique yet admirable approach to systems design: a man with a lifelong focus on making software that satisfied the intellect while freeing programmers to create their dreams.

In a statement, Jeong Kim, president of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, said: "Dennis was well loved by his colleagues at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, and will be greatly missed. He was truly an inspiration to all of us, not just for his many accomplishments, but because of who he was as a friend, an inventor, and a humble and gracious man. We would like to express our deepest sympathies to the Ritchie family, and to all who have been touched in some way by Dennis."

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was born in Bronxville, New York, on 9 September, 1941, and grew up in New Jersey, where his father, Alistair Ritchie, worked as a switching systems engineer for Bell Laboratories. Ritchie went to Harvard University and received his degree in Physics in 1963.

It was at Harvard that Ritchie first encountered a computer, attending a lecture on Univac 1 that captured his imagination. He moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where the first shifts away from the mainframe to smaller, cheaper computers were being ardently investigated, and thence in 1967 to Bell Labs — birthplace of the transistor and, at the time, one of the most important centres of digital innovation in the world. [more........]

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/business-of-it/2011/10/13/dennis-ritchie-father-of-unix-and-c-dies-40094176/
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PostPosted: Thu, Oct 13 2011, 11:42 am EDT    Post subject: Re: another Sad announcement, a great NJ inventor and father of Unix/C passed Reply with quote

Indeed, sad news!
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PostPosted: Thu, Oct 13 2011, 3:24 pm EDT    Post subject: Re: another Sad announcement, a great NJ inventor and father of Unix/C passed Reply with quote

WHO???
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