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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." He 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 16,044 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Ed Roberts is the 75th most popular computer scientist (up from 93rd in 2019), the 4,588th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,587th in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 50.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Ed Roberts ranks 75 out of 201. Before him are John Henry Holland, John Cocke, Ron Rivest, Judea Pearl, James H. Wilkinson, and Leonard Adleman. After him are Ivar Jacobson, Martin Hellman, Geoffrey Hinton, Stephen Cook, Edward Feigenbaum, and Rasmus Lerdorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Ed Roberts ranks 281. Before him are Randall Collins, Gorden Kaye, Christopher Hogwood, Navi Pillay, Anne Tyler, and Ivanka Khristova. After him are Tomaž Šalamun, Mary Alice, Robert Keohane, Mario Corso, Pete Rose, and Stephen Krashen. Among people deceased in 2010, Ed Roberts ranks 187. Before him are Oswaldo López Arellano, Robert Byrd, Daniel Bensaïd, Allan Sandage, Julien Guiomar, and Lena Horne. After him are Zelda Rubinstein, Simon MacCorkindale, Charles Mackerras, Laurent Terzieff, Egon Klepsch, and Samuel T. Cohen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ed Roberts ranks 4,588 out of 18,182. Before him are Mary Elizabeth Winstead (1984), Teri Garr (1944), Melanie Thornton (1967), Johnny Hayes (1886), Maureen Connolly (1934), and Virginia Mayo (1920). After him are Robert Axelrod (1943), Rob Zombie (1965), John Mellencamp (1951), Gale Sondergaard (1899), Tommy Morrison (1969), and Andreas Katsulas (1946).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Ed Roberts ranks 46. Before him are Dana Scott (1932), Mary Kenneth Keller (1913), John Henry Holland (1929), John Cocke (1925), Ron Rivest (1947), and Leonard Adleman (1945). After him are Martin Hellman (1945), Stephen Cook (1939), Edward Feigenbaum (1936), David A. Huffman (1925), Evelyn Berezin (1925), and Eric S. Raymond (1957).

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