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Dennis M. Ritchie was born in Bronxville, Eastchester, New York.
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Dennis Ritchie received his bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University.
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When he started working for Bell labs, Ritchie immediately started working on the Multics operating system.
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Continuing his education at Harvard University, Ritchie received his Doctorate in mathematics.
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After AT&T removed GE machines, Dennis Ritchie and Kenneth Thompson created the Unix operating system.
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As with other projects, Ritchie assisted Kenneth Thompson in creating the B programming language.
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When issues started with B programming, Ritchie created created the C language that is one of the most widely used programming languages to date.
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Among all of his accomplishments, Dennis Ritchie also published the Unix programmers manual.
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Rewrote Unix operating system, with Ken Thompson, in C language because there were issues with B language with Unix OS during the migration to minicomputers.
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The highest honor award was given to Ritchie and his partner Kenneth Thompson for their creation of the Unix operating system.
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Ritchie finally became a fellow at Bell labs.
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Ritchie published the title, The C Programming Language, alongside Brian W. Kernighan.
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In the long list of his accomplishments, Ritchie was appointed the head of the System Software Research Department and in this role he went on to lead more developments of operating systems.
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After he was appointed the head of the System Software Research department, Ritchie led the development of another operating system that is called Plan 9.
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With yet another OS under his belt, Ritchie led the development of the OS Inferno.
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Even after receiving the Turing award in 1983, Ritchie and Thompson got another award, U.S. National Medal of Technology, for their development of Unix OS.
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After fighting prostate cancer and heart disease Dennis Ritchie passed away in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.