...A door had slammed shut for Thompson and Ritchie in March of 1969, when their employer, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., withdrew from a collaborative project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and General Electric to create an interactive time-sharing system called...
The Japan Prize Foundation (formerly known as the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan) announced the laureates of its 2011 Japan Prize, one of the world's most prestigious international awards in science and technology. Two American innovators of technology, Dennis Ritchie and Ken...