The First SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award

摘要

The idea for creating the Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award came to me on October 25th at the banquet of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles held in Portugal. Ritchie had died two weeks before. Steve Jobs had died a week before that. Both were pioneers of the computer revolution, and both succumbed to cancer within days of one another. But while Jobs' death was all over the news, the death of Ritchie did not get the coverage it deserved. Even at the banquet, where many speeches were held, Ritchie's death received little attention, and I felt badly that none of us had gone through the trouble of preparing a eulogy.