- Born
- September 9, 1941
- Died
- October 12, 2011 (aged 70)
- Known as
- computer scientist, programmer, writer, mathematician
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.
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