Dennis Ritchie

“Legend History of the month”

Hello! And Welcome to my dorm. This month‘s legend history of the month is about an important person who changed the world of programming and to led concept of high level language and also a co-founder of an operating system which is also important OS nothing

but “UNIX”, a base for most of the open source OS, I think you may have guessed who is our topic, yes! Dennis Ritchie is our legend of this month.

About:

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchieis an American computer scientist, son of Alistair E. Ritchie who is also a scientist in AT&T lab. Born in Bronxville, New York, USA on September 9, 1941. Dennis is the founder of “C” programming language and co-founderof the UNIX operating system. After some time they moved to Summit.

Academics:

            Dennis did his schoolings in Summit high school, Summit, USA and he graduated in Physics and applied mathematics from Harvard University. He got his Doctorate from Harvard University.

Work:

            Dennis worked in Lucent Technologies and AT & T lab. Dennis founded the C programminglanguage which led to the development of high level languages. C has been an important programming language even now. All new technologies are based on C. C is widely used in applications and embedded systems. C shows major influence in development of an operating system. UNIX is one such operating system which has a great dependency on C. Dennis is also a Co-founder of UNIX operating system. Dennis also contributed to ALTRAN, B, BCPL, Multics.

Achievements:

·        Founded “C”

·      Co-founded UNIX

·        Awarded Turing award from ACM in 1983.

·        Got Hamming medal from IEEE in 1990.

·        Got National medal of Technology from President Clintonin 1999.

·        Awarded Achievement award by Industrial research institute in 2005.

·        Awarded Japan prize for Information and communication in 2011.

Death:

            Dennis was found dead in Berkeley Heights on October 12, 2011. He is said to be died due to prostate cancer and heart disease. A week after the death of Steve jobs but was not so popular and not concentrated by media.

That’s it for the legend history of the month post. Please leave your comments. Thank you for spending your leisure time reading my blog. Hope it is useful, still more post to come so please stay tuned. Till then its  bye from a geek like you.