Dennis M. Ritchie

1941 -- Born in Bronxville, N.Y.

1963 -- Graduates from Harvard University with a B.S. in Physics

1968 -- Receives from Harvard University a Ph.D. in mathematics

1967 -- Joins Bell Labs, following his father, Alistair E. Ritchie, who had a long career there

1968 -- Joins the Bell Labs team working on Multics, a joint effort of Bell Labs, MIT and GE to develop a general computer operating system

1972 -- Creates C language

1989 -- Receives with Ken Thompson the NEC C&C Prize for significant contributions to computer technology

1983 -- Named Bell Labs Fellow

19?? -- Appointed head, System Software Research Department in the Computer Scienes Research Center at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, N.J.

1988 -- Named to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering

1995 -- Heads the effort to create the Plan 9 operating system

1996 -- Heads the effort to create the Inferno(tm) operating system

1999 -- Receives with Kenneth Thompson the U.S. National Medal of Technology (link to ???) for the development of the UNIX system

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