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As far as I know, Brian Kernighan who has been credited with the first "Hello World" program is still alive:

You could try contacting him:
Here is his home page at Princeton.
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/
I won't publish his email address here, but you can find it by reading recent articles he has written.
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TURNIN(1)						      General Commands Manual							 TURNIN(1)

NAME
turnin - submit assignments to be graded SYNOPSYS
turnin [ OPTIONS ] -c [ course-name ] files DESCRIPTION
Submits assignments to be graded. We submit to the default project if it is not specified as an option. REQUIRED ARGUMENTS
-c, --course Sets the course to which we'll submit our assignments. files A list of files we wish to submit. They will be compressed using tar(1) and gzip(1) formats before being copied to the submission directory. OPTIONS
--version Print turnin's version -h, --help Print a help message -l, --list Prints a list of projects, along with whether or not they are enabled and shows which project is the default project. -p, --project Sets the project to which we'll submit our assignments. -C, --config Path to an alternate configuration file -v, --verbose Prints a list of submitted files once they have been submitted. -k, --keyid Cryptographically signs an assignment using gpg(1) -w, --legal Print warranty and license information. EXAMPLES
turnin -c world-cheeses --list List the projects in the course world-cheeses. turnin -c world-cheeses stilton-recipe Submit the file stilton-recipe to the default project in the course world-cheeses. turnin -c world-cheeses -p stilton stilton-recipe Submit the file stilton-recipe to the project stilton in the course world-cheeses. FILES
/etc/turnin-ng.cf ~/.turnin-ng/submissions SEE ALSO
turnincfg(1) The full documentation for turnin is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and turnin programs are properly installed at your site, the command info turnin-ng should give you access to the complete manual. AUTHOR
Turnin-NG and this manpage were written by Ryan Kavanagh <ryanakca@kubuntu.org> in the summer of 2009 and are still actively maintained. Turnin-NG is a replacement for the 'project' and 'turnin' commands written in 1990 for the SPARC architecture by an unknown author. Both Turnin-NG and this manpage are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, or (at your option) any later version. Turnin-NG SEPTEMBER 2010 TURNIN(1)