Short Summary about Dennis Mac Alistair Ritchie

1. Dennis MacDennis Mac
Alistair RitchieAlistair Ritchie
“Life can only be
understood backwards;
but it must lived
forwards”

2.  About Dennis Ritchie
 Educational Background
 Family Background
 Works
 Awards

3.  Born September 9, 1941, Bronxville, New York, U.S.
 Found dead October 12, 2011, Berkeley Heights, New
Jersey U.S. (aged 70)
 Fields “Computer Science”
 Works at Lucent Technologies & Bell Labs.
 Known for ALTRAN, B, BCPL, C, MULTICS, UNIX

4.  Notable awards the Turing Award and National Medal
of Technology
 Unmarried

5.  Graduated from Summit High School
 Harvard University

6.  His father was Alistair Ritchie
 Jean McGee Ritchie the mother of Dennis
 Lynn, John and Bill Ritchie his brother and sister.

7.  In the late 1960s he began working with UNIX
 In 1963 Ritchie joined the MIT.
 He joined in the CSRC of Bell Labs in 1967

8.  In 1983 Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing awards
from the ACM “Nobel prize of Computing”.
 The Hamming Medal from IEEE in 1990.
 Were awarded the National Medal of Science in 1998.
 In 1999 Ritchie awarded the U.S. National Medal of
Technology.
 The Japan prize for Information and Communication in
2011.