Dennis M. Ritchie
Award Recipient
Dennis M. Ritchie
ACM Software System Award
USA - 1983
UNIX
citation
Dennis M. Ritchie, Ken Thompson
For their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the Unix operating system.ACM A. M. Turing Award
USA - 1983
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With Ken Thompson, for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system.
ACM Programming Systems and Languages Paper Award
USA - 1975
citation
The UNIX time-sharing system, Communications of the ACM, July 1974 (with Ken Thompson)