Dennis Ritchie

GPTKB entity

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gptkb:IEEE_Richard_W._Hamming_Medal
gptkb:Japan_Prize
gptkb:National_Medal_of_Technology
Fellow of the Computer History Museum
Turing Award
gptkbp:birthDate 1941-09-09
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Bronxville,_New_York,_USA
gptkbp:causeOfDeath heart disease
prostate cancer
gptkbp:coauthor gptkb:Brian_Kernighan
gptkb:Ken_Thompson
gptkb:Douglas_McIlroy
gptkb:M._D._McIlroy
gptkb:Michael_Lesk
gptkb:Stephen_C._Johnson
gptkbp:coWrote gptkb:The_C_Programming_Language
gptkb:UNIX_Programmer's_Manual
gptkbp:deathDate 2011-10-12
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Berkeley_Heights,_New_Jersey,_USA
gptkbp:degree gptkb:PhD
gptkbp:employer gptkb:Bell_Labs
gptkbp:field computer science
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Dennis_MacAlistair_Ritchie
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Dennis Ritchie
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Java
gptkb:Objective-C
gptkb:Perl
gptkb:Go
gptkb:C#
gptkb:C++
gptkb:Rust
UNIX-like operating systems
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Ken_Thompson
gptkb:ALGOL
gptkb:BCPL
gptkb:B_programming_language
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:C_programming_language
gptkb:UNIX_operating_system
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkbp:notableStudent gptkb:Brian_Kernighan
gptkb:Rob_Pike
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:computer_scientist
gptkbp:parent gptkb:Alistair_E._Ritchie
gptkbp:restingPlace gptkb:Berkeley_Heights,_New_Jersey,_USA
gptkbp:TuringAwardYear 1983
development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system
gptkbp:website https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/
gptkbp:wrote gptkb:The_C_Programming_Language
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gptkb:Association_for_Computing_Machinery
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gptkb:Bell_Telephone_Laboratories
gptkb:Draper_Prize
gptkb:Hal_Abelson
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4