COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Alfred Aho

1941 - Today

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Alfred Vaino Aho (born August 9, 1941) is a Canadian computer scientist best known for his work on programming languages, compilers, and related algorithms, and his textbooks on the art and science of computer programming. Aho was elected into the National Academy of Engineering in 1999 for his contributions to the fields of algorithms and programming tools. He and his long-time collaborator Jeffrey Ullman are the recipients of the 2020 Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Aho has received more than 324,266 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Alfred Aho is the 60th most popular computer scientist (down from 59th in 2019), the 171st most popular biography from Canada (up from 190th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Computer Scientist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Alfred Aho ranks 60 out of 245. Before him are Vernor Vinge, Don Norman, Warren Weaver, Larry Wall, Ole-Johan Dahl, and James H. Wilkinson. After him are Pierre Bézier, Ron Rivest, Jay Wright Forrester, Edward Feigenbaum, Charles P. Thacker, and Dana Scott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Alfred Aho ranks 225. Before him are Jiří Raška, Miriam Margolyes, Helen Reddy, Mario Corso, Vlado Milunić, and Chucho Valdés. After him are Tomaž Šalamun, Angelo Domenghini, Rintaro, Bertrand of Orléans-Braganza, Robert Foxworth, and Pola Raksa.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Alfred Aho ranks 171 out of 1,622. Before him are Stephen Harper (1959), Joe Shuster (1914), Henry Czerny (1959), James Doohan (1920), Emily Carr (1871), and Napoleon Sarony (1821). After him are Nelly Furtado (1978), Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886), Ian Hacking (1936), Anne Carson (1950), Viola Desmond (1914), and Elisha Cuthbert (1982).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Canada

Among computer scientists born in Canada, Alfred Aho ranks 3. Before him are James Gosling (1955), and Brian Kernighan (1942). After him are John Draper (1943), Kenneth E. Iverson (1920), Rob Pike (1956), Gilles Brassard (1955), and Maria Klawe (1951).

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