COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Bruce Perens

1958 - Today

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Bruce Perens (born around 1958) is an American computer programmer and advocate in the free software movement. He created The Open Source Definition and published the first formal announcement and manifesto of open source. He co-founded the Open Source Initiative (OSI) with Eric S. Raymond.In 2005, Perens represented Open Source at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society, at the invitation of the United Nations Development Programme. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruce Perens has received more than 297,059 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Bruce Perens is the 187th most popular computer scientist (down from 169th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Bruce Perens by language

Over the past year Bruce Perens has had the most page views in the with 24,833 views, followed by Chinese (2,747), and German (2,366). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (22,900.00%), Portuguese (47.20%), and Catalan (31.62%)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Bruce Perens ranks 187 out of 245. Before him are Edward F. Moore, Noga Alon, Andrew Morton, Pat Hanrahan, Geir Ivarsøy, and Brian Acton. After him are Hans Reiser, Elizabeth J. Feinler, Douglas Crockford, Erich Gamma, Alan Cox, and Chieko Asakawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Bruce Perens ranks 533. Before him are Jean Charest, Antonio Di Gennaro, Rainer Hasler, Flemming Rasmussen, Martin Whitmarsh, and John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute. After him are Toni Innauer, Bengt-Åke Gustafsson, Hrant Bagratyan, Víctor Diogo, Elena Horvat, and Frank Gambale.

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