[SIGCIS-Members] Need help identifying a photo

[Evan Koblentz]

K. responded: "Dennis (bearded) is standing.  Ken (clean shaven) is 
seated. The label is correct."


On 01/27/2016 12:21 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
> I forwarded your message to Brian Kernighan.
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> 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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