Modern computing as we know it would not have existed without Dennis Ritchie, father of the C programming language and Co-creator of the UNIX operating system.
Dennis M. Ritchie, the inventor of the C programming language and
co-developer of the Unix operating system who influenced all facets of
technology, has died at the age of 70.
The Berkeley Heights resident played an important role in the development of software used in search engines and smartphones, had been battling cancer.
Mr. Ritchie went to high school in Summit before heading to Harvard. He began his career at Bell Labs in 1967 and was there until his retirement in 2007.
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