COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Chieko Asakawa

1958 - Today

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Chieko Asakawa (浅川 智恵子, Asakawa Chieko) is a blind Japanese computer scientist, known for her work at IBM Research – Tokyo in accessibility. A Netscape browser plug-in she developed, the IBM Home Page Reader, became the most widely used web-to-speech system available. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chieko Asakawa has received more than 60,576 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Chieko Asakawa is the 194th most popular computer scientist (down from 187th in 2019), the 1,853rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,808th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Computer Scientist.

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  • 40.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Chieko Asakawa ranks 194 out of 245. Before her are Bruce Perens, Hans Reiser, Elizabeth J. Feinler, Douglas Crockford, Erich Gamma, and Alan Cox. After her are Ian Murdock, Sophie Wilson, Gilles Brassard, Alexandra Elbakyan, Daphne Koller, and Martin Odersky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Chieko Asakawa ranks 588. Before her are Tony Pulis, Dario Franceschini, Magnus Andersson, Robert Dill-Bundi, María Elena Moyano, and Marino Riccardi. After her are Jules Bocandé, Audronius Ažubalis, Ron Simmons, Anissa Jones, Leonhard Stock, and Luther Blissett.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Chieko Asakawa ranks 1,853 out of 6,245. Before her are Seigo Narazaki (1976), Masaya Onosaka (1964), Kimiko Shiratori (1968), Arina Tanemura (1978), Miki Itō (1962), and Taeko Kawasumi (1972). After her are Sayaka Ohara (1975), Yu Darvish (1986), Yūko Minaguchi (1966), Toru Sano (1963), Miyuki Sawashiro (1985), and Keiji Tamada (1980).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Japan

Among computer scientists born in Japan, Chieko Asakawa ranks 4. Before her are Satoshi Nakamoto (1975), Ken Kutaragi (1950), and Yukihiro Matsumoto (1965).

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