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Betty Holberton

1917 - 2001

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Frances Elizabeth Holberton (March 7, 1917 – December 8, 2001) was an American computer scientist who was one of the six original programmers of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Betty Holberton has received more than 274,213 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Betty Holberton is the 100th most popular computer scientist (up from 102nd in 2019), the 5,473rd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,111th in 2019) and the 59th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 28

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  • 4.15

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  • 3.44

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Betty Holberton ranks 100 out of 245. Before her are Adam Osborne, Yann LeCun, Liviu Librescu, John Draper, Karen Spärck Jones, and Ed Roberts. After her are Jean Bartik, Stephen Wolfram, Paul G. Comba, Anita Borg, Adele Goldberg, and Robert W. Floyd.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Betty Holberton ranks 209. Before her are Henry Carlsson, Leandro Remondini, Helen Suzman, Kriangsak Chamanan, Domenico Bartolucci, and Abdel Rahman Badawi. After her are Robert Byrd, Jacqueline Auriol, Mikhail Devyataev, Lev Kerbel, Isuzu Yamada, and Ernesto Alonso. Among people deceased in 2001, Betty Holberton ranks 190. Before her are Ardito Desio, Jan Kott, Jutta Rüdiger, Maria Gorokhovskaya, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Franco Rasetti. After her are Édouard Artigas, Anne Haney, Vasily Abaev, Arturo Uslar Pietri, John C. Lilly, and Nam Sung-yong.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Betty Holberton ranks 5,473 out of 20,380. Before her are Donnie Wahlberg (1969), Richard Moll (1943), Glen A. Larson (1937), Pete Rose (1941), Jacob Epstein (1880), and Nicholas Pileggi (1933). After her are Christopher McDonald (1955), Terrence Howard (1969), Tony Amendola (1951), Sandahl Bergman (1951), James Farentino (1938), and Bessie Coleman (1892).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Betty Holberton ranks 59. Before her are Eugene Garfield (1925), Larry Tesler (1945), Eric S. Raymond (1957), John Henry Holland (1929), Mary Kenneth Keller (1913), and Ed Roberts (1941). After her are Jean Bartik (1924), Anita Borg (1949), Adele Goldberg (1945), Robert W. Floyd (1936), John Hopcroft (1939), and Robert Taylor (1932).

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