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<h1 class="text-center">Dennis Ritchie</h1>
<h3 class="text-center">The father of C Programming and co-creator of UNIX</h3>
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<h2 class="text-center">The timeline of a great man: Dennis Ritchie<h2>
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<button type="button" class="list-group-item"><h4><strong>September 9th, 1941: </strong></h4><h5>Born in Bronxville NY</h5></button>
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<button type="button" class="list-group-item"><h4><strong>January 1st, 1967: </strong></h4><h5>Ritchie started working at Bell Labs in 1967. Here is where he worked on Multics operating system.</h5></button>
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<button type="button" class="list-group-item"><h4><strong>May 1st, 1968: </strong></h4><h5>Ritchie earned his bachelor's degree in Physics in 1963, and completed his Doctorate degree in Mathematics in 1968 from Harvard University.</h5></button>
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<button type="button" class="list-group-item"><h4><strong>January 1st, 1969: </strong></h4><h5>Bell Labs dropped the Multics operating systems project in 1969. This prompted Ritchie to develop C programming language and, with Thompson, create the UNIX operating system.</h5></button>
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<button type="button" class="list-group-item"><h4><strong>November 3rd, 1971: </strong></h4><h5>Unix was released on November 3rd, 1971, opening a operating system to work on a variety of platforms with highly adapted quality.</h5></button>
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<button type="button" class="list-group-item"><h4><strong>January 1st, 1972: </strong></h4><h5>Ritchie and Thompson's operating system was not functioning on the more advanced PDP-11 mini computer in 1971. This prompted Ritchie to create C programming lanuage. C programming lanuage is very popular and important to the development of software including programs such as C++ and Java.</h5></button>
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<button type="button" class="list-group-item"><h4><strong>January 1st, 1973: </strong></h4><h5>Ritchie and Thompson wrote UNIX using C programming language. This allowed for UNIX to work a wide variety of computers in a range of large and minicomputers and advanced to simple computers.</h5></button>
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<button type="button" class="list-group-item"><h4><strong>January 1st, 1983: </strong></h4><h5>Cowinner (with Ken Thompson) of the A.M. Turing Award. It is a prestigious award and the top achievement in Computer Science. They recieved this award for, "their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system" (Hosch).</h5></button>
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<button type="button" class="list-group-item"><h4><strong>January 1st, 1988: </strong></h4><h5>Ritchie was elected into the U.S National Academy of Engineering in 1988.</h5></button>
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<button type="button" class="list-group-item"><h4><strong>January 1st, 1990: </strong></h4><h5>Ritchie was appointed the head of the System Software Research Department at Bell Labs in 1990.</h5></button>
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<button type="button" class="list-group-item"><h4><strong>January 1st, 1994: </strong></h4><h5>Awarded the 1994 Computer Pioneer Award, "In recognition of contribution to the development of Unix" (Dennis).</h5></button>
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<button type="button" class="list-group-item"><h4><strong>January 1st, 1995: </strong></h4><h5>In 1995 Ritchie (and his team) released Plan 9 operating system. Plan 9 attempted to integrate graphics and networking into a Unix platform. "They kept the Unix choice to mediate access to as many system services as possible through a single big file-hierarchy name space" (Plan 9).</h5></button>
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<button type="button" class="list-group-item"><h4><strong>April 1st, 1996: </strong></h4><h5>Ritchie (with team members) released the inferno Operating System in April 1996. Inferno is a operating system for building distributed and networked systems on a large range of platforms and systems. "You can fectch it now as Free Software, on similar terms to Linux orxBSD" (Inferno).</h5></button>
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<button type="button" class="list-group-item"><h4><strong>April 21st, 1999: </strong></h4><h5>Richie and Thompson are awarded the U.S. National Medal of Technology Award from President Bill Clinton for inventing UNIX and C programming language.</h5></button>
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<button type="button" class="list-group-item"><h4><strong>October 12th, 2011: </strong></h4><h5>Dennis Ritchie died October 12th, 2011 in Berkeley Heights, NJ</h5></button>
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<p>He was truly an inspiration to all of us, not just for his many accomplishments, but because of who he was as a friend, an inventor, and a humble and gracious man.</p>
<footer>Jeong Kim, president of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs <cite title="Source Title">from Dennis Ritchie 1941-2011 - Message From Jeong Kim</cite></footer>
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<p class="text-center">Read more about this great man on his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie">Wiki</a></p>
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