Dennis Ritchie Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system and B programming language. Born: 9 September 1941, Bronxville, New York, United States Died: 12 October 2011, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States Nationality: American Books: The C Programming Language. 2nd Edition. Awards: Turing Award, National MedalContinue reading “Father of modern coding”
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Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS, also known as TimBL, is an English engineer and computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Born: 8 JuneContinue reading “Tim Berners-Lee”