[colug-432] Fwd: Dennis Ritchie Day (Sept 7)

[Jeff Frontz]

[In case your disdain for anything but cuneiform on clay precludes even
trying to read the forwarded message: Jeong Kim, President of Bell Labs,
will host a celebration to honor the legacy of Dennis Ritchie on Friday
morning, September 7, 2012, in Murray Hill, N.J. The event begins in the
Arnold Auditorium at 9:30 a.m. EST, and will include several guest
speakers, including members of the original UNIX® team as well as members
of the Ritchie family, who will share their personal perspectives of Dennis
and the impact he has made on society.]

[In case you miss it at the bottom: "People outside of Alcatel-Lucent can
watch the event via Live Streaming at the following URL:
http://www.livestream.com/belllabs" ]


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*Hold the Date: Dennis Ritchie Day Sept 7* ****

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Jeong Kim, President of Bell Labs, will host a celebration to honor the
legacy of Dennis Ritchie on Friday morning, September 7, 2012, in Murray
Hill, N.J. ****

The event begins in the Arnold Auditorium at 9:30 a.m. EST, and will
include several guest speakers, including members of the original
UNIX® team as well as members of the Ritchie family, who will share their
personal perspectives of Dennis and the impact he has made on society.****

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*Guest Speakers*****

The agenda will include some of the leading thinkers in the fields of
information, communications and computing technology, including:****

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**·         ***Al Aho*, original member of the Bell Labs Computer Systems
Lab where UNIX® and the C programming language were invented. He
co-authored the AWK programming language and is currently Professor of
Computer Science, Columbia University ****

**·         ***Brian Kernighan*, original member of the Computer Systems
Lab who co-authored the C programming language book with Ritchie; he is
currently Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University ****

**·         ***Doug McIlroy*, who led the Computer Systems Lab, and is
currently Professor of Computer Science, Dartmouth College ****

**·         ***David Patterson*, Professor of Computer Science, U.C.
Berkeley, where he led the design and implementation of RISC I (Reduced
Instruction Set Computer) ****

**·         ***Eric Schmidt,* Executive Chairman, Google, Inc. Schmidt
co-authored the lex analysis software program for UNIX® ****

Master of Ceremonies is *Susanne Arney*, head of Bell Labs North
America.  *Steve
Fortun*e, Technical Manager, Bell Labs Enabling Computing Technologies
domain, will present a talk on Bell Labs Research today.****

*Webcast and Live Streaming*****

Click to watch the event via
*Webcast*<http://webcast.alcatel-lucent.com/2012/bl>
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People outside of Alcatel-Lucent can watch the event via *Live
Streaming*<http://www.livestream.com/belllabs>at the following URL:
http://www.livestream.com/belllabs****

*Questions*****

There will be a Question & Answer session during the event. You can submit
a question by clicking *Dennis Ritchie Day
Q&A*<deb.mcgregor_fonteix at alcatel-lucent.com?subject=Dennis%20Ritchie%20Day%20Q%26A>.
 Depending on the number of questions received, there may or may not be
time to ask all of the submitted questions during the event.****

*About Dennis Ritchie*****

Dennis Ritchie, co-inventor of the UNIX® operating system and inventor of
the C programming language, joined the Bell Labs Computer Systems Research
department in 1967, and though he retired in 2007 from the Computer Science
Research Center, he continued to maintain close ties as a consultant for
Bell Labs. ****

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He received numerous prestigious awards for his work, including the ACM
award for the outstanding paper of 1974 in systems and languages; IEEE
Piore, Hamming and Pioneer medals, Bell Laboratories Fellow; Association
for Computing Machinery Turing Award (1983); ACM Software Systems Award
(1983); C&C Foundation award of NEC (1989); the US Medal of Technology
(1999); the U Penn Harold Pender Award (1993); and the Japan Prize (2011).
He also was elected to the U. S. National Academy of Engineering in 1988.***
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All of these honors were shared with Ken Thompson, co-inventor of UNIX® and
long-time friend.****

Dennis passed away in October 2011 at the age of 70.****

*Stay Tuned*****

More information, including an agenda and other details will be shared
shortly.****

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*Resources*****

Webcast <http://webcast.alcatel-lucent.com/2012/bl>****

Live Streaming <http://www.livestream.com/belllabs>****

Feature Story: Japan Prize Foundation Honors Dennis Ritchie for the UNIX
operating system and C programming
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