> The following year, the lab hired Ritchie, a Harvard grad whose father was a Bell Labs alum, and Ken Thompson, a self-described army brat who, by his own admi

> The following year, the lab hired Ritchie, a Harvard grad whose father was a Bell Labs alum, and Ken Thompson, a self-described army brat who, by his own admission, spent at least a month actively dodging the Bell Labs recruiter on the Cal-Berkeley campus