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Andy Hertzfeld

1953 - Today

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Andrew Jay Hertzfeld (born April 6, 1953) is an American software engineer who was a member of Apple Computer's original Macintosh development team during the 1980s. After buying an Apple II in January 1978, he went to work for Apple Computer from August 1979 until March 1984, where he was a designer for the Macintosh system software. Since leaving Apple, Hertzfeld has co-founded three companies: Radius in 1986, General Magic in 1990, and Eazel in 1999. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andy Hertzfeld has received more than 1,373,980 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Andy Hertzfeld is the 161st most popular computer scientist (down from 157th in 2019), the 9,684th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,461st in 2019) and the 92nd most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 51.53

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Andy Hertzfeld ranks 161 out of 245. Before him are Raj Reddy, Martin Fowler, James H. Clark, Bertrand Meyer, Tim Paterson, and Steve Russell. After him are Michael Dertouzos, Bruce Schneier, Hal Abelson, Gary McKinnon, Grady Booch, and Rob Pike.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Andy Hertzfeld ranks 463. Before him are Valerie Mahaffey, Jürgen Kurths, Franco Selvaggi, Aleksandr Poleshchuk, Pedro López Quintana, and Albert Pyun. After him are Desiré Wilson, Sally Menke, Ricky Steamboat, Reneta Indzhova, Paco Herrera, and Yuri Gavrilov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Andy Hertzfeld ranks 9,684 out of 20,380. Before him are Kathy Hochul (1958), Albert Pyun (1953), George Montgomery (1916), Barbara Ferrell (1947), Tim Howard (1979), and Steve Russell (1937). After him are Ryan Dunn (1977), Leslie David Baker (1958), Erin Moran (1960), Jessica Hecht (1965), Shari Arison (1957), and Lucy Hale (1989).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Andy Hertzfeld ranks 92. Before him are David Patterson (1947), Kent Beck (1961), E. Allen Emerson (1954), Randy Pausch (1960), James H. Clark (1944), and Steve Russell (1937). After him are Bruce Schneier (1963), Grady Booch (1955), Jean E. Sammet (1928), Brewster Kahle (1960), Jon Hall (1950), and Evan Williams (1972).

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