Dennis M. Ritchie


 
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1983 ACM Turing Award (joint with Kenneth Thomspson)

1998 National Medal of Technology (joint with Kenneth Thomspson)

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Selected Works of Dennis M. Ritchie

Dennis M. Ritchie, "The Development of the C Language," History of Programming Languages - II (ACM Press and Addison-Wesley, 1996). Also available online at http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html (AT&T, accessed 2004 Nov 20).

Dennis M. Ritchie and Kenneth Thomspson, "The UNIX Time-Sharing System," Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (Association for Computing Machinery, 1973 Oct 15-17). This is the original Unix paper.

Dennis M. Ritchie and Kenneth Thomspson, "The UNIX Time-Sharing System (Revised)," The Bell System Technical Journal 57, no. 6, part 2 (AT&T, 1978 Jul-Aug). Also available online at http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.html (AT&T, accessed 2004 Nov 20). This paper has a note that tells how it is related to the original 1973 Unix paper.

The Development of the C Language by Ritchie, 1993

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