Dennis Ritchie

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Dennis_Ritchie

GPTKB entity

AI-created image

Statements (58)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:person
gptkbp:almaMater	gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkbp:awarded	gptkb:Computer_Pioneer_Award 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
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:AT&T_Bell_Laboratories gptkb:Association_for_Computing_Machinery gptkb:Bell_Labs gptkb:Bell_Telephone_Laboratories gptkb:Draper_Prize gptkb:Hal_Abelson
gptkbp:bfsLayer	4