Dennis Mac Alistair Ritchie

Short Summary about Dennis Mac Alistair Ritchie

1. Dennis Mac Dennis Mac
Alistair RitchieAlistair Ritchie
“Life can only be
understood backwards;
but it must lived
forwards”

2. About Dennis Ritchie
Educational Background
Family Background
Works
Awards

3. Born September 9, 1941, Bronxville, New York, U.S.
Found dead October 12, 2011, Berkeley Heights, New
Jersey U.S. (aged 70)
Fields “Computer Science”
Works at Lucent Technologies & Bell Labs.
Known for ALTRAN, B, BCPL, C, MULTICS, UNIX

4. Notable awards the Turing Award and National Medal
of Technology
Unmarried

5. Graduated from Summit High School
 Harvard University

6. His father was Alistair Ritchie
Jean McGee Ritchie the mother of Dennis
Lynn, John and Bill Ritchie his brother and sister.

7. In the late 1960s he began working with UNIX
In 1963 Ritchie joined the MIT.
He joined in the CSRC of Bell Labs in 1967

8. In 1983 Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing awards
from the ACM “Nobel prize of Computing”.
The Hamming Medal from IEEE in 1990.
Were awarded the National Medal of Science in 1998.
In 1999 Ritchie awarded the U.S. National Medal of
Technology.
The Japan prize for Information and Communication in
2011.