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Douglas McIlroy

1932 - Today

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Malcolm Douglas McIlroy (born 1932) is an American mathematician, engineer, and programmer. As of 2019 he is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. McIlroy is best known for having originally proposed Unix pipelines and developed several Unix tools, such as echo, spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, and tr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Douglas McIlroy has received more than 373,766 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Douglas McIlroy is the 802nd most popular mathematician (up from 849th in 2019), the 7,898th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,703rd in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 53.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Douglas McIlroy ranks 802 out of 1,004. Before him are Francesco Brioschi, Andrzej Mostowski, Eugene Dynkin, Ngô Bảo Châu, Marcel Riesz, and Grace Chisholm Young. After him are Frank Morley, Wolfgang Krull, Richard Rado, Tadeusz Banachiewicz, Marina Ratner, and Maryna Viazovska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Douglas McIlroy ranks 386. Before him are Bronius Kutavičius, Pak Ui-chun, Katy Bødtger, Sidney Verba, Volodymyr Dakhno, and Marcia Neugebauer. After him are Djibril Tamsir Niane, K. C. Jones, Richard Herd, Henry Taylor, Jerzy Pawłowski, and Rudolph Rummel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Douglas McIlroy ranks 7,898 out of 20,380. Before him are Jean Carnahan (1933), Roderick Thorp (1936), Art Larsen (1925), Riley Steele (1987), Bebe Neuwirth (1958), and Skip James (1902). After him are Stith Thompson (1885), Jack Conway (1887), Scott Hall (1958), Robert A. Lovett (1895), Dick Butkus (1942), and Nick Carter (1980).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Douglas McIlroy ranks 58. Before him are Martin Davis (1928), Hassler Whitney (1907), Edward O. Thorp (1932), Joseph Keller (1923), Christine Darden (1942), and Morris Kline (1908). After him are James Waddell Alexander II (1888), Garrett Birkhoff (1911), Gregory Chaitin (1947), Curtis T. McMullen (1958), Tom M. Apostol (1923), and Marshall Harvey Stone (1903).

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