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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'>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? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'>Thompson’s lecture tells you how to write a Trojan Horse program!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue'>Paul E. Ceruzzi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue'>Chair, Division of Space History<br>National Air & Space Museum<br>MRC 311; PO Box 37012<br>Washington, DC 20013-7012<br>202-633-2414 <br><<a href="http://www.nasm.si.edu/staffDetail.cfm?staffID=24">http://www.nasm.si.edu/staffDetail.cfm?staffID=24</a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue'>></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Evan Koblentz<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 13, 2011 12:13 AM<br><b>To:</b> members@sigcis.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [SIGCIS-Members] Another tough loss: Dennis Ritchie<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/101960720994009339267/posts/ENuEDDYfvKP?hl=en">https://plus.google.com/u/0/101960720994009339267/posts/ENuEDDYfvKP?hl=en</a><br><br>Rob Pike says Dennis Ritchie died this weekend.<br><br>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, <a href="mailto:evan@snarc.net">evan@snarc.net</a>.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>