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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 245,551 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Dana Scott is the 66th most popular computer scientist (down from 60th in 2019), the 4,245th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,156th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Dana Scott ranks 66 out of 201Before him are Sergey Lebedev, Larry Wall, Ole-Johan Dahl, Larry Tesler, Gary Kildall, and Adam Osborne. After him are Mary Kenneth Keller, John Draper, John Henry Holland, John Cocke, Ron Rivest, and Judea Pearl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Dana Scott ranks 212Before him are Francis Arinze, Max Gallo, Walter Cunningham, Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Vitold Fokin, and Per Nørgård. After him are Tiny Tim, Henri Nouwen, Stefanie Zweig, On Kawara, Siegfried Rauch, and Henri Namphy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dana Scott ranks 4,245 out of 18,182Before him are Tatum O'Neal (1963), David Cassidy (1950), Anthony Zerbe (1936), Frank Serpico (1936), Chris Dickerson (1939), and Berry Berenson (1948). After him are Black Elk (1863), Julian Beck (1925), Duane Hanson (1925), June Squibb (1929), Jane Badler (1953), and Tiny Tim (1932).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Dana Scott ranks 40Before him are Edwin Catmull (1945), Vernor Vinge (1944), Gil Amelio (1943), Larry Wall (1954), Larry Tesler (1945), and Gary Kildall (1942). After him are Mary Kenneth Keller (1913), John Henry Holland (1929), John Cocke (1925), Ron Rivest (1947), Leonard Adleman (1945), and Ed Roberts (1941).