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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

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 254,664 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Betty Holberton is the 102nd most popular computer scientist (down from 80th in 2019), the 6,124th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,950th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 47.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Betty Holberton ranks 102 out of 201Before her are Eugene Garfield, Manuel Blum, Edmund M. Clarke, John Hopcroft, Jan Koum, and Robert C. Martin. After her are Evan Williams, Peter Norton, Scott Fahlman, Robert Fano, Yann LeCun, and Yukihiro Matsumoto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Betty Holberton ranks 206Before her are Tofig Guliyev, Virginia Grey, Larry O'Brien, Fidel Sánchez Hernández, José Perácio, and Kriangsak Chamanan. After her are Ernesto Alonso, José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, Torsten Lindberg, Babiker Awadalla, Vernon A. Walters, and Robert Fano. Among people deceased in 2001, Betty Holberton ranks 197Before her are Vasily Abaev, Dale Earnhardt, József Csermák, Lee Cronbach, Yuri Ozerov, and Jean Richard. After her are Sivaji Ganesan, Gerhard Stoltenberg, Ranko Marinković, Franco Rasetti, Alberto Gallardo, and Stanislav Rostotsky.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Betty Holberton ranks 6,124 out of 18,182Before her are Joseph Sargent (1925), Stoya (1986), Barry Corbin (1940), Efraim Zuroff (1948), Herman Cain (1945), and Thomas Hampson (1955). After her are Christine Lahti (1950), Michael Kremer (1964), Lori Loughlin (1964), Ben Hogan (1912), Tommy Rettig (1941), and Jed Allan (1935).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Betty Holberton ranks 62Before her are Robert Taylor (1932), Marlyn Meltzer (1922), Radia Perlman (1951), Eugene Garfield (1925), Edmund M. Clarke (1945), and John Hopcroft (1939). After her are Evan Williams (1972), Peter Norton (1943), Scott Fahlman (1948), James H. Clark (1944), Michael Stonebraker (1943), and Jean Bartik (1924).