Ritchie was best known as the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, and as co-author of the definitive book on C, The C Programming Language, commonly ...

It was built atop UNIX, the operating system originally created over 30 years ago by researchers at AT&T's Bell Labs. UNIX is the same software that gave rise to Linux, the open source OS that ...

We have some somber news to bring you this morning: Robert Morris, the cryptographer who helped create Unix, has died at the age of 78.Morris began his work on the groundbreaking OS back in 1970 ...

the text-parsing tool he helped create for Unix at Bell Labs in 1977. "I have tested this a fair amount but clearly more tests are needed," Kernighan wrote in the email, posted in late May as a ki ...