9 Jan
2019
9 Jan
'19
1:38 a.m.
Warren Toomey writes:
https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/08/national-inventors-hall-of-fame-class-o…
The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) joined Engadget on stage
today at CES to announce its 2019 class of inductees. [ including ] ...
Dennis Ritchie (Posthumous) and Ken Thompson: UNIX Operating System
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Thompson and Ritchie's creation of the UNIX operating system and the C
programming language were pivotal developments in the progress of computer
science. Today, 50 years after its beginnings, UNIX and UNIX-like systems
continue to run machinery from supercomputers to smartphones. The UNIX
operating system remains the basis of much of the world's computing
infrastructure, and C language -- written to simplify the development
of UNIX -- is one of the most widely used languages today.
Cheers, Warren
Huh. How can the go off and give awards like this to people that Issacson
claims did nothing of value :-)