From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:34:31 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Fwd: [SIGCIS-Members] Need help identifying a photo In-Reply-To: <56A8FA51.30805@bitsavers.org> References: <447612405A15694BAA260AEC80EB05393381B25D@SI-MSEDAG01.US.SINET.SI.EDU> <56A8FA51.30805@bitsavers.org> Message-ID: Certainly looks like Ken without glasses just like first met him many years ago, On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > > Can someone here ID the mystery person? > > Embarrassingly, CHM has the person misidentified as well. > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Need help identifying a photo > Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:46:45 +0000 > From: Ceruzzi, Paul > To: members at lists.sigcis.org > > > > There is a famous photo on Wikimedia commons, of what purports to be Ken > Thompson & Dennis Ritchie in front of a PDP-11, presumably working on > UNIX. The problem is that the seated person doesn’t look like either of > them. And he is clean-shaven. Could it be Bjarne Stroustrup? Does anyone > recall seeing T&R w/o facial hair? Any help in tracking this down would > be much appreciated! The photo has been reprinted in many places, and > I’d like to track this down before I inadvertently propagate an error. > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ken_Thompson_(sitting)_and_Dennis_Ritchie_at_PDP-11_(2876612463).jpg > > Paul E. Ceruzzi > > Curator, Division of Space History > > National Air and Space Museum > > MRC 311, PO Box 37012 > > Smithsonian Institution > > Washington, DC 20013-7012 > > www.ceruzzi.com > > ceruzzip at si.edu > > 202-633-2414 > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: