Dennis M. Ritchie heads the system software research department at Bell Laboratories’s Computing Science Research Center. Ritchie joined Bell Laboratories in 1968 after obtaining his graduate and ...
Dennis Ritchie, who died this week at the age of 70, created the C programming language—and with it, open systems and the world of modern computing.
The world has lost another computer pioneer. Dennis Ritchie, the computer scientist who invented the C programming language and co-developped the Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Sign ...