Dennis Ritchie
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Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created, together with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system, C programming language, and B programming language
Ritchie in 2011
Ken Thompson (left) and Dennis Ritchie (right), in 1973
Ritchie conversing in a chalet in the mountains surrounding Salt Lake City
Ritchie, standing in the middle, in a striped sweater, behind Steven Bellovin in a baseball cap
Brian Kernighan
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Brian Wilson Kernighan is a Canadian computer scientist. He worked at Bell Labs and contributed to the development of Unix alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan's name bec
Dennis Ritchie
…then found an old PDP-7 machine and developed his own application programs and operating system from scratch, aided by Ritchie and others. In 1970, Brian Kernighan suggested the name "Unix", a pun on the name "Multics". To supplement assembly language with a system-level programming language, Thompson created B…
Brian Kernighan presenting at Vintage Computer Festival East in April 2025
Brian Kernighan speaks at a tribute to Dennis Ritchie in 2012 at Bell Labs.