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title: Dennis Ritchie's Typographical Mystery description: Today I learned that Dennis Ritchie's Ph.D. thesis was never accepted and that his son created a game company. slug: dennis-ritchie-typographical-mystery <!--- authors:
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Today I learned that Dennis Ritchies Ph.D. thesis was never accepted and that his son created a game company called Binary Arts 1,2. The reason this was important to me is because I use Unix daily and had a collection of puzzles which included Spin-Out from Bill Ritchie's company.
Dennis Ritchie was the computer scientist who created the C programming language and the Unix operating system3. These two are the underpinnings of a vast majority of what computers today. I've been tinkering with a little side project based on puzzles that encourages curiosity in learning since I credit this quality for my own success. I'll start a page for that project over at /notes/work/projects/games
- How did Dennis Ritchie Produce his PhD Thesis? A Typographical Mystery - https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/dmr/doceng22.pdf
- Bill Ritchie - https://www.thinkfun.com/about-us/meet-the-team/
- Dennis Ritchie - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie