Channel: Computerphile

Category: Education

Tags: computercomputerphileken thompsonsciencebell labsdennis ritchiephdcomputersunixuniversity of nottinghamprofessor brailsford

Description: Professor Brailsford has been toiling away on a faithful recreation of Unix co-creator Dennis Ritchie's unsubmitted PhD thesis. The Computer History Museum material on Dennis's lost thesis is at: computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation The Ritchie family's Web site about the devices (hardware and software) that Dennis used to create his thesis is at: dmrthesis.net facebook.com/computerphile twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at bradyharan.com