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UNIX Creators To Receive Pender Award

Posted by simoniker on from the long-ago-and-far-away dept.

jellings writes "Dennis Ritchie and Kenneth Thompson will be recipients of this years' Harold Pender Award, given "to an outstanding member of the engineering profession who has achieved distinction by significant contributions to society" by the University Of Pennsylvania School of Engineering. Under the direction of Pender, ENIAC was born, and under Ritchie and Thompson, UNIX was born."

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  1. A whole bunch of other awards also... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Herbert T. Wack award
    The Joanne Dawson award
    The MooMoo Fleacatcher medal
    The Anonymous Coward special prize
    The Ryan, Dan, Andrew award (Wisconson, USA)
    The anti-Bill Gates snub
    The Kevin T. Rinkel award of excellence
    The Christina Mottleshmidt award
    The Coca-Cola bottle-on-my-desk award
    The Post-it notes grand jury prize
    The Stapler statue
    The lined-notebook award

    OK, OK... you got me... I made them all up!
    Who is this Pender dude?