“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.
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