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From: Royce Williams <royce@techsolvency.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's Dissertation
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 16:26:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+E3k92EGKq22ZAtVSRCTFAFYSsJ9Jf_m4F=jRAGXQE4SkkBBg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202007310003.06V03OoV073870@chez.mckusick.com>

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On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 4:23 PM Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> wrote:

> The Computer History Museum has an interesting blog post about
> Dennis Ritchie's lost dissertation:
>
>
> https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/
>
> Interesting fact is that Dennis never received his PhD because he failed
> to provide a bound copy of his dissertation to the Harvard library.


It would seem fitting to try to get this posthumously corrected.

If we provided said bound copy, does anyone have any Harvard contacts that
could facilitate?

Royce

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Royce Williams
Tech Solvency

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-31  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-31  0:03 Kirk McKusick
2020-07-31  0:26 ` Royce Williams [this message]
2020-07-31  0:30 ` Dan Cross
2020-07-31  0:36   ` Rich Morin
2020-08-01  7:14   ` markus schnalke
2020-08-01 14:13     ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-01 15:08       ` John P. Linderman
2020-08-01 16:43         ` Dan Cross
2020-08-01 17:21           ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2020-08-01 17:34             ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-08-01 17:48           ` John Cowan
2020-08-01 20:24         ` John Gilmore
2020-07-31  0:35 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-31  0:54   ` John Cowan
2020-07-31 12:56 Doug McIlroy
2020-08-01 16:44 [TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's dissertation Doug McIlroy
2020-08-01 21:24 [TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's Dissertation Norman Wilson

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