[TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's Dissertation

Royce Williams royce at techsolvency.com
Fri Jul 31 10:26:59 AEST 2020


On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 4:23 PM Kirk McKusick <mckusick at mckusick.com> wrote:

> The Computer History Museum has an interesting blog post about
> Dennis Ritchie's lost dissertation:
>
>
> https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/
>
> Interesting fact is that Dennis never received his PhD because he failed
> to provide a bound copy of his dissertation to the Harvard library.


It would seem fitting to try to get this posthumously corrected.

If we provided said bound copy, does anyone have any Harvard contacts that
could facilitate?

Royce

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Royce Williams
Tech Solvency
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