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Andrew Morton

1959 - Today

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Andrew Keith Paul Morton (born 1959) is an Australian software engineer. He is one of the lead developers of the Linux kernel, and a co-maintainer of the Ext3 file system, the journaling layer for block devices (JBD) and memory management. In the late 1980s, he was one of the partners of a company in Sydney, Australia that produced a kit computer called the Applix 1616, as well as a hardware engineer for the now-defunct Australian gaming equipment manufacturer Keno Computer Systems. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrew Morton has received more than 23,532 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Andrew Morton is the 184th most popular computer scientist (down from 165th in 2019), the 5,443rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,016th in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Computer Scientist.

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  • 49.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Andrew Morton ranks 184 out of 245. Before him are Audrey Tang, Henriette Avram, Luis von Ahn, Sugata Mitra, Edward F. Moore, and Noga Alon. After him are Pat Hanrahan, Geir Ivarsøy, Brian Acton, Bruce Perens, Hans Reiser, and Elizabeth J. Feinler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Andrew Morton ranks 499. Before him are Edwyn Collins, Hiroshi Soejima, Shohreh, Maya Lin, Lutz Dombrowski, and Baselios Cleemis. After him are Mike van Diem, Acácio, Mario Martone, Yuriko Shima, Geoff Tate, and Zhan Videnov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Andrew Morton ranks 5,443 out of 8,785. Before him are Andy Auld (1900), Jimmy Ross (1866), William Fox (1812), William Ames (1576), Joe Calzaghe (1972), and Frederick Humphreys (1878). After him are William Roscoe (1753), Richard Greene (1918), Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (1845), Skandar Keynes (1991), Arthur Gardiner Butler (1844), and Graham Higman (1917).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, Andrew Morton ranks 16. Before him are Richard Garriott (1961), Paul Graham (1964), David Marr (1945), Kathleen Booth (1922), Martin Fowler (1963), and Gary McKinnon (1966). After him are Alan Cox (1968), Sophie Wilson (1957), Stuart J. Russell (1962), and Demis Hassabis (1976).

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