@inproceedings{fd000cbbfd8f480b9ae41b27c333f183,
title = "How did Dennis Ritchie Produce his PhD Thesis? A Typographical Mystery",
abstract = "Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and, with Ken Thompson, the co-creator of the Unix operating system, completed his Harvard PhD thesis on recursive function theory in early 1968. But for unknown reasons, he never officially received his degree, and the thesis itself disappeared for nearly 50 years.",
keywords = "IBM 2741, archiving, digital restoration, electric typewriter, mathematical typesetting, postscript fonts, troff",
author = "Brailsford, {David F.} and Kernighan, {Brian W.} and Ritchie, {William A.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 Owner/Author.; 22nd ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, DocEng 2022 ; Conference date: 20-09-2022 Through 23-09-2022",
year = "2022",
month = sep,
day = "20",
doi = "10.1145/3558100.3563839",
language = "English (US)",
series = "DocEng 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
booktitle = "DocEng 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering",
}