Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/ [computerhistory.org]
2020-06-20 23:21
It may come as some surprise to learn that until just this moment, despite Ritchie’s much-deserved computing fame, his dissertation—the intellectual and biographical fork-in-the-road separating an academic career in computer science from the one at Bell Labs leading to C and Unix—was lost. Lost? Yes, very much so in being both unpublished and absent from any public collection; not even an entry for it can be found in Harvard’s library catalog nor in dissertation databases.