Certainly looks like Ken without glasses just like first met him many years
ago,
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Al Kossow <aek(a)bitsavers.org> wrote:
Can someone here ID the mystery person?
Embarrassingly, CHM has the person misidentified as well.
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Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Need help identifying a photo
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:46:45 +0000
From: Ceruzzi, Paul <CeruzziP(a)si.edu>
To: members(a)lists.sigcis.org <members(a)lists.sigcis.org>
There is a famous photo on Wikimedia commons, of what purports to be Ken
Thompson & Dennis Ritchie in front of a PDP-11, presumably working on
UNIX. The problem is that the seated person doesn’t look like either of
them. And he is clean-shaven. Could it be Bjarne Stroustrup? Does anyone
recall seeing T&R w/o facial hair? Any help in tracking this down would
be much appreciated! The photo has been reprinted in many places, and
I’d like to track this down before I inadvertently propagate an error.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ken_Thompson_(sitting)_and_Dennis_R…
Paul E. Ceruzzi
Curator, Division of Space History
National Air and Space Museum
MRC 311, PO Box 37012
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20013-7012
www.ceruzzi.com <http://www.ceruzzi.com>
ceruzzip(a)si.edu <mailto:ceruzzip@si.edu>
202-633-2414