Discovering Dennis Ritchie's Lost Dissertation - Computer History Museum Blog
“It may come as some surprise to learn that until just this moment, despite Ritchie’s much-deserved computing fame, his dissertation—the intellectual and biographical fork-in-the-road separating an academic career in computer science from the one at Bell Labs leading to C and Unix—was lost. Lost?”
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Ken Thompson (sitting) and Dennis Ritchie at PDP-11
Peter Hamer, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Dennis MacAllstair Ritchie (1941-2011) Nationality: AmericanField: Computer Science Known for: C programming language, UNIX`````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````