Dechert's attorney, Dennis Ritchie, declined to comment further on the suit. Dechert fell out of political favor with the mayor and Borough Council, the suit says, because he reported several ...

Now, via some remarkable salvage work, the oldest known machine-readable copy of Unix, from Dennis Ritchie's own backup tapes, over half a century old, has been coaxed back into life. Code ...

Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, and Brian Kernighan come to mind. After all, the K in both K&R C and in AWK stand for Kernighan. While Kernighan is no stranger to book authorship — he’s written ...