Dennis Ritchie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dennis Ritchie

American computer scientist

Date of Birth: 09-Sep-1941

Place of Birth: Bronxville, New York, United States

Date of Death: 12-Oct-2011

Profession: writer, computer scientist, mathematician, programmer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – c.
October 12, 2011) 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.
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.