Receive and transmit for July; they're all quality content, but if wondering where to start, Space Rogue's review, and Joel Spolsky's advice for CS students are sure to whet the appetite:

• Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation [13 min]
• Feferman, S. (2006). Turing’s Thesis. Notices of the AMS, 53(10), 1200–1206. [21 min]
• Why is C still in use even though we have C++? [3 min]
• C++ in Coders at Work [7 min]
• Why are you Still Using C? [16 min]
• Hungarian Notation — Charles Simonyi [17 min]
• Greg Wilson — What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe …

However, something else happened that summer which you won’t find in most history books… a Bell Labs researcher named Ken Thompson created the first version of Unix, which turned out to be one of the most important pieces of computer software ever invented.

This year, we celebrate 50 years of Unix! It was the summer of 1969 that Ken Thompson finished what came to be known as Unix over a three week period when his wife took his kid to visit the in-laws for summer. It wouldn't be hyperbole to suggest that what Ken accomplished literally revolutionised computing.

Bell Labs is …