Technology Stalwarts

Dennis Ritchie
September 9, 1941 - October 12, 2011

printf("Goodbye Ritchie\n");

The man behind the foundation of the digital era...

The man who co-developed Unix System...

The man behind C...

As a computer science student, it was really hard to accept his death. He was the very individual who revolutionized the digital age with the creation of the programming language C and Unix along with his colleague Ken Thompson at the Bell Laboratories.

The entire world of computer science revolves around programming with C which has influenced the development of several other programming languages like C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, JavaScript.

Every tablet that is out in the market, every iphone is rooted to this contribution by the computer scientist Dennis Ritchie.

R.I.P Father of C and Unix, Dennis M Ritchie

If you don't have an iphone, well...you don't have an iphone...

The man behind Apple...

The man who revolutionized the mp3 player to the uber cool ipod...

The co founder of Pixar Animation Studios which gave us Toy Story, a brilliant animation series...

The man behind "i" in digital era...

R.I.P Steven Paul Jobs

It's disheartening to find out so many brilliant people out there are no longer with us today. It was astonishing to find out John McCarthy joins the list of people whom we owe a lot today....

John McCarthy
September 4, 1927 - October 24, 2011

The individual who coined the term Artificial Intelligence...

The founder of LISP (LISt Processing), one of the most influential programming languages...

The one who was involved in the development of time - sharing systems without which the INTERNET wouldn't have existed...

R.I.P John McCarthy

Three of the technology stalwarts are longer with us today. This definitely seems like a doomsday conspiracy by the Almighty.