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Ed Roberts

1941 - 2010

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Henry Edward Roberts (September 13, 1941 – April 1, 2010) was an American engineer, entrepreneur and medical doctor who invented the first commercially successful personal computer in 1974. He is most often known as "the father of the personal computer." Roberts founded Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) in 1970 to sell electronics kits to model rocketry hobbyists, but the first successful product was an electronic calculator kit that was featured on the cover of the November 1971 issue of Popular Electronics. The calculators were very successful and sales topped one million dollars in 1973. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ed Roberts has received more than 16,722 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Ed Roberts is the 99th most popular computer scientist (down from 75th in 2019), the 5,457th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,576th in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 17k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Ed Roberts ranks 99 out of 245. Before him are Robin Milner, Adam Osborne, Yann LeCun, Liviu Librescu, John Draper, and Karen Spärck Jones. After him are Betty Holberton, Jean Bartik, Stephen Wolfram, Paul G. Comba, Anita Borg, and Adele Goldberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Ed Roberts ranks 344. Before him are Richard Martin West, Charlotte Stewart, Bas van Fraassen, Hank Marvin, David Johnston, and Bo Svenson. After him are Pepetela, Pete Rose, Rina Zaripova, Tatyana Kuznetsova, Sahar Khalifeh, and Rachid Boudjedra. Among people deceased in 2010, Ed Roberts ranks 224. Before him are Carl Adam Petri, Jackie Burroughs, Ronald Neame, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Dixie Carter, and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. After him are Charles Mackerras, Loki Schmidt, Jacqueline de Romilly, George C. Williams, Robert Byrd, and Jyoti Basu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ed Roberts ranks 5,457 out of 20,380. Before him are Annie Wersching (1977), Vanilla Ice (1967), Catherine Bach (1954), Betty Hutton (1921), Mark Moses (1958), and Henry Halleck (1815). After him are Michael Chiklis (1963), Demi Lovato (1992), Gerald McRaney (1947), Manny Ayulo (1921), Charles Mackerras (1925), and Charles Bacon (1885).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Ed Roberts ranks 58. Before him are Marlyn Meltzer (1922), Eugene Garfield (1925), Larry Tesler (1945), Eric S. Raymond (1957), John Henry Holland (1929), and Mary Kenneth Keller (1913). After him are Betty Holberton (1917), Jean Bartik (1924), Anita Borg (1949), Adele Goldberg (1945), Robert W. Floyd (1936), and John Hopcroft (1939).

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