The silence on this list was deafening. > group is saying: "OK, so he discovered fire and invented the wheel - but > what has he done since?".
1983 Turing Award 1990 IEEE Hamming medal 1999 National Medal of Technology 2011 Japan Prize for Information and Communications (while he was still alive I think) Even if he hadn't done anything technologically innovative that was made public since C and UNIX, his C book (which was the first programming book I read in it's entirety) and the foundations of his OS have helped countless millions of people. I find it sad that in many undergrad computer science curricula, C is no longer being taught. If you want to understand how software works under the hood you either learn assembly or C.
