Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 - October 9, 2011) was
an American computer scientist notable for developing C and for having
influence on other programming languages, as well as operating systems
such as Multics and Unix. He received the Turing Award in 1983 and the
National Medal of Technology 1998 on April 21, 1999. Ritchie was the
head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when
he retired in 2007.
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