COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Dana Scott

1932 - Today

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Dana Stewart Scott (born October 11, 1932) is an American logician who is the emeritus Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University; he is now retired and lives in Berkeley, California. His work on automata theory earned him the Turing Award in 1976, while his collaborative work with Christopher Strachey in the 1970s laid the foundations of modern approaches to the semantics of programming languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dana Scott has received more than 262,959 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Dana Scott is the 66th most popular computer scientist, the 3,977th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,233rd in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 260k

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  • 52.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Dana Scott ranks 66 out of 245. Before him are Alfred Aho, Pierre Bézier, Ron Rivest, Jay Wright Forrester, Edward Feigenbaum, and Charles P. Thacker. After him are Martin Hellman, Gary Kildall, Leonard Adleman, Evelyn Berezin, Adi Shamir, and Stephen Cook.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Dana Scott ranks 212. Before him are Lia Manoliu, Vasco de Almeida e Costa, Richard Estes, Saye Zerbo, John Glen, and Dabney Coleman. After him are Parry O'Brien, Patsy Cline, Tony Brooks, Stefanie Zweig, Ervin László, and Bruno S..

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dana Scott ranks 3,977 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Mueller (1944), Steve Cropper (1941), Randall Collins (1941), Patricia Kennedy Lawford (1924), Ben Turpin (1869), and Robert Stack (1919). After him are Dick Sargent (1930), Parry O'Brien (1932), Edward Gorey (1925), Queen Latifah (1970), Surangel Whipps Jr. (1968), and Patsy Cline (1932).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Dana Scott ranks 41. Before him are Warren Weaver (1894), Larry Wall (1954), Ron Rivest (1947), Jay Wright Forrester (1918), Edward Feigenbaum (1936), and Charles P. Thacker (1943). After him are Martin Hellman (1945), Gary Kildall (1942), Leonard Adleman (1945), Evelyn Berezin (1925), Stephen Cook (1939), and Richard M. Karp (1935).

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