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Bruce Schneier

1963 - Today

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Bruce Schneier (; born January 15, 1963) is an American cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer. Schneier is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society as of November, 2013. He is a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Access Now, and The Tor Project; and an advisory board member of Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruce Schneier has received more than 968,307 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Bruce Schneier is the 147th most popular computer scientist (down from 137th in 2019), the 8,945th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,387th in 2019) and the 87th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 970k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Bruce Schneier ranks 147 out of 201. Before him are Kristen Nygaard, Bertrand Meyer, Steve Russell, Martin Fowler, Raj Reddy, and Kent Beck. After him are Tim Paterson, Silvio Micali, Brewster Kahle, Christos Papadimitriou, Dave Cutler, and Grady Booch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Bruce Schneier ranks 364. Before him are Blanca Portillo, Kevin J. O'Connor, Sükhbaataryn Batbold, Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Tim DeKay, and Joe Dumars. After him are Lisa Nowak, Maria Walliser, Marcos Pontes, Konrad Krajewski, Erik King, and Kira Ivanova.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bruce Schneier ranks 8,945 out of 18,182. Before him are Bob Avakian (1943), Joe Dumars (1963), Alonzo Mourning (1970), Arnold Denker (1914), Jack Teagarden (1905), and Annette Funicello (1942). After him are Lisa Nowak (1963), Ricardo Cortez (1900), Gregg Araki (1959), Alfonso Ribeiro (1971), Richard Olney (1835), and Earl Scruggs (1924).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Bruce Schneier ranks 87. Before him are Jaron Lanier (1960), James Rumbaugh (1947), David Patterson (1947), Robert Tarjan (1948), Steve Russell (1937), and Kent Beck (1961). After him are Brewster Kahle (1960), Dave Cutler (1942), Grady Booch (1955), Jean E. Sammet (1928), Robert Tappan Morris (1965), and Andy Hertzfeld (1953).

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