COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Alan Perlis

1922 - 1990

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Alan Jay Perlis (April 1, 1922 – February 7, 1990) was an American computer scientist and professor at Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Perlis has received more than 238,857 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Alan Perlis is the 39th most popular computer scientist (up from 51st in 2019), the 2,791st most popular biography from United States (up from 3,504th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Alan Perlis by language

Over the past year Alan Perlis has had the most page views in the with 24,324 views, followed by Chinese (3,706), and Russian (2,403). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (95.65%), Mirandese (63.20%), and Galician (55.33%)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Alan Perlis ranks 39 out of 245. Before him are Luigi Federico Menabrea, Ken Kutaragi, Leonard Kleinrock, Maurice Wilkes, Juris Hartmanis, and Jef Raskin. After him are Frances E. Allen, Edmund M. Clarke, Charles Bachman, Amir Pnueli, J. C. R. Licklider, and Joseph Weizenbaum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Alan Perlis ranks 152. Before him are Sōsuke Uno, Anatoli Papanov, Paul Scofield, Susanna Agnelli, Kevin Roche, and Margherita Hack. After him are Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, Anker Jørgensen, Artemio Franchi, Bea Arthur, Niels Holst-Sørensen, and Howard Zinn. Among people deceased in 1990, Alan Perlis ranks 88. Before him are Michel Leiris, Eduard Streltsov, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Thorbjørn Egner, Tom Fogerty, and Mariano Rumor. After him are Lothar Collatz, Juan José Arévalo, Horst Sindermann, Vaso Čubrilović, Carlos Peucelle, and Hayedeh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Perlis ranks 2,791 out of 20,380. Before him are Murray Perahia (1947), Buddy Guy (1936), Elizabeth McGovern (1961), Stephen Paddock (1953), Sam Waterston (1940), and Margaret Bourke-White (1904). After him are Al Martino (1927), Maxie Long (1878), Huey Lewis (1950), Estelle Getty (1923), Derrick Rose (1988), and Joshua Fishman (1926).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Alan Perlis ranks 23. Before him are Kevin Mitnick (1963), Ward Cunningham (1949), Barbara Liskov (1939), Allen Newell (1927), Leonard Kleinrock (1934), and Jef Raskin (1943). After him are Frances E. Allen (1932), Edmund M. Clarke (1945), Charles Bachman (1924), J. C. R. Licklider (1915), John Cocke (1925), and Nolan Bushnell (1943).

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