From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 19544 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2020 00:29:04 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 31 Jul 2020 00:29:04 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 941FB93DFC; Fri, 31 Jul 2020 10:29:03 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 248EE9CB3C; Fri, 31 Jul 2020 10:27:45 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 6E4029CB3C; Fri, 31 Jul 2020 10:27:39 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-vs1-f42.google.com (mail-vs1-f42.google.com [209.85.217.42]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3BDF793DFC for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2020 10:27:37 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-vs1-f42.google.com with SMTP id 1so10263833vsl.1 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2020 17:27:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=OnOTpjPDBCtiL5qHDEjIx7VFdY0rnHiA7tpmSPSxtuM=; b=WGSACwpzgUmN1usmm8SiF7I4GB6rU+e5y4mYF2Mc0l70Z6c/oxIvZsp6FKCPF0vx4+ sLGbV8Fqm8hRpZHKAaDWo8fVBlj4WtiV+j8GQQb9IEk1pQsdkJ0b65wf+3tEk7RLoK+U CBqQ9Bq3Wzsw9x2WqFXdMubypJ1E3biS3xmvZrmw6OrZhRAV0CMRs4vfZAaRRv3e0OKZ 3u/R1T6FvqH/Y802iUUER2X5Wtt0/qgE7T5EtoN+FbySPk1mnqJJh46TZGcKFt/eKpzT +aYmUFLeVTF4sYsYvfh/Oy8995HjR+DaKwOdUelizFxdH+oznfKKN6Qby6w2SQha9qKI coeA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533vv6r4tWUZTeOXTc1yH/gDSxwrT72z0hP1g1heu5pkBQEcammp NmNDDhBQneedgP9YQzP7iZ+GiaKpZK45g0srLcDFPQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwQ25mFoi/ekUZb/iEgQSbROS/VH14c7OHXhTtPfeTjNi5dmeAvVyMrf03cZFyYvBVxdpuGCS3PB7euCD8Ang0= X-Received: by 2002:a67:bb06:: with SMTP id m6mr1579092vsn.54.1596155255469; Thu, 30 Jul 2020 17:27:35 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <202007310003.06V03OoV073870@chez.mckusick.com> In-Reply-To: <202007310003.06V03OoV073870@chez.mckusick.com> From: Royce Williams Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 16:26:59 -0800 Message-ID: To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000002393b05abb1db7a" Subject: Re: [TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's Dissertation X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --00000000000002393b05abb1db7a Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 4:23 PM Kirk McKusick 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 -- Royce Williams Tech Solvency --00000000000002393b05abb1db7a Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 4:23 PM Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> wrote:
The Computer History Mus= eum has an interesting blog post about
Dennis Ritchie's lost dissertation:

https://computerhisto= ry.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 c= orrected.

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

Royce

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