Thursday, October 20, 2011

Computer programming legend Dennis Ritchie has died

Dennis M. Ritchie (September 9, 1941 - October 12, 2011), who helped shape the modern digital era by creating software tools (father of the C programming language and UNIX operating system), that power things as diverse as search engines like Google and smartphones, was found dead on Wednesday at his home in Berkeley Heights, N.J. He was 70

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