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Bram Cohen

1975 - Today

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Bram Cohen is an American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent protocol in 2001, as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol, also known as BitTorrent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bram Cohen has received more than 821,118 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Bram Cohen is the 218th most popular computer scientist (down from 203rd in 2019), the 15,255th most popular biography from United States (down from 14,717th in 2019) and the 115th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 820k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 35.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Bram Cohen ranks 218 out of 245. Before him are Werner Koch, John Ousterhout, Eric Allman, Tron, Dariusz Jemielniak, and Phil Katz. After him are Demis Hassabis, Steve Wilhite, Ilya Sutskever, Bassel Khartabil, Mark Overmars, and Shawn Fanning.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1975, Bram Cohen ranks 568. Before him are Xian Dongmei, Murat Han, Dmitri Khokhlov, Aitor González, Nicki Sørensen, and Squarepusher. After him are Giorgi Ugulava, Jordan Ladd, Amara, Bartosz Bosacki, Anthony Parker, and Nozomi Yamago.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bram Cohen ranks 15,255 out of 20,380. Before him are Hans Niemann (2003), Perrey Reeves (1970), Richard Bakalyan (1931), Marcus Camby (1974), Kate DiCamillo (1964), and David Hodges (1978). After him are Donald R. McMonagle (1952), Rosemary DeCamp (1910), Dan Byrd (1985), Marty Jannetty (1960), Nima Arkani-Hamed (1972), and Maria Cantwell (1958).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Bram Cohen ranks 115. Before him are Paul Buchheit (1977), Craig Federighi (1969), Nancy Lynch (1948), John Ousterhout (1954), Eric Allman (1955), and Phil Katz (1962). After him are Steve Wilhite (1948), Shawn Fanning (1980), Danny Hillis (1956), Theodore Ts'o (1968), Katie Bouman (1989), and David Karp (1986).

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