Commentary: Thompson and Ritchie?

Where are Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie now?

• Ken Thompson's Bell Labs Homepage
• Ken Thompson's Wikipedia Page
• Dennis Ritchie's Bell Labs Homepage

Ken Thompson works at Google now as, according to Wikipedia, a "Distinguished Engineer".

Dennis Ritchie still works at Bell Labs, which is now owned by Alcatel-Lucent.

Edlefma 11:45, 2 Sep 2008 (EST)

As we talked about in class, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie jointly won the ACM Turing Award in 1983. Here are links to their acceptance speaches.

• Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson
• Reflections on Software Research by Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Ritchie's is very relevent to our current discussion. In it he touches on a number of topics we touched on in class.

--Edlefma 22:17, 6 Sep 2008 (EST)