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Dennis Ritchie: The Quiet Architect of the Digital World

Dennis Ritchie: The Quiet Architect of the Digital World

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In this episode of pplpod, we profile Dennis Ritchie, the pioneering computer scientist whose passing in October 2011 was largely overshadowed by the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. We explore Ritchie's career at Bell Labs, where he created the C programming language and co-developed the Unix operating system alongside his long-time colleague, Ken Thompson,. Listen in to learn how Ritchie’s "under the radar" work provided the "DNA" for effectively every modern software product, including the technology foundation upon which Apple built its fortune,. From his "lost dissertation" at Harvard to winning the Turing Award, we uncover the legacy of the man whose code runs the modern world,.

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