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Recreating Dennis Ritchie's PhD Thesis - Computerphile
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Professor David Brailsford discusses the effort to recreate Unix co-creator Dennis Ritchie's unsubmitted PhD thesis.
Professor Brailsford has been toiling away on a faithful recreation of Unix co-creator Dennis Ritchie's unsubmitted PhD thesis. The Computer History Museum material on Dennis's lost thesis is at: computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-di… The Ritchie family's Web site about the devices (hardware and software) that Dennis used to create his thesis is at: dmrthesis.net/ facebook.com/computerphile twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at bradyharan.comWhy it's here
2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended for its historical insight into Dennis Ritchie's academic work and the early days of Unix.
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>Thompson and Ritchie had PhDs
Well, acchually... Dennis never got his PhD degree due to... reasons: [video This, of course, does not detract from his genius.
Ken did not do a PhD. He went to Bell Labs following his master's degree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken\_Thompson