It did hasn't received as much attention as the death of Steve Jobs, but another person who had a profound effect on the world of computers died a few days ago.
Dennis Ritchie, of Bell Labs, who along with Ken Thompson, developed the UNIX operating system, was found dead in his home on October 12th. He was 70. Ritchie was also the developer of the C programming language.
While Ritchie's death did not receive the attention that Steve Job's did, his contributions are also very significant. In fact, UNIX was the basis for the NeXT operating system which would evolve into Mac OS X, as well as the model for Linux.
Ritchie had been in ill health in recent years because of prostate cancer and heart disease.,
His web page is here.
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