Dennis Ritchie was born in Bronxville, New York. His father was Alistair E. Ritchie, a longtime Bell Labs scientist and co-author of The Design of Switching Circuits on switching circuit theory. As a child, Dennis moved with his … See more

Ritchie created the C programming language and was one of the developers of the Unix operating system. With Brian Kernighan, … See more

Ritchie was found dead on October 12, 2011, at the age of 70 at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, where he lived alone. First … See more

• Ritchie engaged in conversation in a chalet in the mountains surrounding Salt Lake City at the 1984 Usenix conference.
• At the same Usenix 1984 conference, Dennis Ritchie is in … See more

In 1967, Ritchie began working at the Bell Labs Computing Science Research Center. In 1968, he defended his PhD thesis on … See more

In 1983, Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing Award "for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the … See more

Following Ritchie's death, computer historian Paul E. Ceruzzi stated:
Ritchie was under the radar. His name was not a household name at all, but... if you had a … See more