Yes. There was a reception in his honor on October 5, I believe.

-rob

On Dec 17, 2007 9:03 PM, Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
> Somebody edited the Wikipedia article "Dennis Ritchie" to insert
> a rumor that he retired from Bell Labs/Lucent (or whatever the
> company name is) this month. I reverted the edit until we can
> obtain some reliable confirmation. Does anybody here know?
> Thanks!
>

During his IWP9 talk he mentioned he had retired.

uriel

On Dec 17, 2007 5:03 AM, Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
> Somebody edited the Wikipedia article "Dennis Ritchie" to insert
> a rumor that he retired from Bell Labs/Lucent (or whatever the
> company name is) this month. I reverted the edit until we can
> obtain some reliable confirmation. Does anybody here know?
> Thanks!
>