[SIGCIS-Members] Need help identifying a photo

[Evan Koblentz]

I forwarded your message to Brian Kernighan.



On 01/27/2016 11:46 AM, Ceruzzi, Paul wrote:
> 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_Ritchie_at_PDP-11_(2876612463).jpg
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> Paul E. Ceruzzi
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> Curator, Division of Space History
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> National Air and Space Museum
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> MRC 311, PO Box 37012
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> Smithsonian Institution
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> Washington, DC 20013-7012
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> www.ceruzzi.com <http://www.ceruzzi.com>
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> ceruzzip at si.edu <mailto:ceruzzip at si.edu>
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> 202-633-2414
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