He's presently studying computer science at the Polytechnic University of Valence, Spain, where he spends most of his time. Far away from computers, he likes listening to music, going to the theatre, and snowboarding.
Some people become important because they change history, others make history.
Dennis Ritchie belongs to the second group of people. It is not necessary to stress the relevance of this contribution to the mankind. But it was not enough for him. Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson developed the Unix operating system, i.e. The Operating System. He has not stop working on computers and operating systems, and as a result, Plan 9 and Inferno were developed by the group of researchers under his leadership.