[SIGCIS-Members] Another tough loss: Dennis Ritchie

[Ceruzzi, Paul]

After I heard the news I went to the Turing Award lectures that he and Ken Thompson gave-they're probably on-line but I have them in the CACM 27 (August 1984), 757-763. The lecture by Ritchie, on the role of Bell Labs and its uncertain future after it was broken up (the year before) is very touching. Looking back, we see that the breakup of AT&T led to the current world of telecommunications & computing intertwined, but at what cost?

Thompson's lecture tells you how to write a Trojan Horse program!

Paul E. Ceruzzi
Chair, Division of Space History
National Air & Space Museum
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Washington, DC 20013-7012
202-633-2414
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From: members-bounces at sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces at sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Evan Koblentz
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 12:13 AM
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Rob Pike says Dennis Ritchie died this weekend.

I'm writing a blog post tonight for Computerworld magazine. If anybody would like to share some thoughts about Dennis and/or the C language, then please email me privately ASAP tonight, evan at snarc.net<mailto:evan at snarc.net>.
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