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Gary Kildall

1942 - 1994

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Gary Arlen Kildall (; May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur. During the 1970s, Kildall created the CP/M operating system among other operating systems and programming tools, and subsequently founded Digital Research, Inc. to market and sell his software products. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gary Kildall has received more than 880,547 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Gary Kildall is the 68th most popular computer scientist (down from 64th in 2019), the 4,036th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,175th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Computer Scientist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Gary Kildall ranks 68 out of 245. Before him are Ron Rivest, Jay Wright Forrester, Edward Feigenbaum, Charles P. Thacker, Dana Scott, and Martin Hellman. After him are Leonard Adleman, Evelyn Berezin, Adi Shamir, Stephen Cook, Richard M. Karp, and Sergey Lebedev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Gary Kildall ranks 272. Before him are Pyotr Klimuk, Aritatsu Ogi, Johnny Servoz-Gavin, Ademir da Guia, Lev Leshchenko, and Antoine Berman. After him are Jackie Oliver, Margarita Terekhova, Hannes Löhr, Federico Lombardi, Guy Edwards, and Sjoukje Dijkstra. Among people deceased in 1994, Gary Kildall ranks 159. Before him are Jack Sharkey, Juan Alonso, Tom Ewell, Dick Sargent, Sam Francis, and Karel Kryl. After him are Anatoly Alexandrov, Igor Chislenko, Oldřich Černík, Nick Cravat, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, and Bassel al-Assad.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gary Kildall ranks 4,036 out of 20,380. Before him are Ambrose Burnside (1824), Luther Burbank (1849), Charles W. Gilmore (1874), Patrick Henry (1736), Robert David Hall (1947), and Vince Vaughn (1970). After him are Kate Hudson (1979), Dutch Schultz (1902), Richard Hartshorne (1899), Peter Hyams (1943), Todd Rundgren (1948), and Sumner Paine (1868).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Gary Kildall ranks 43. Before him are Ron Rivest (1947), Jay Wright Forrester (1918), Edward Feigenbaum (1936), Charles P. Thacker (1943), Dana Scott (1932), and Martin Hellman (1945). After him are Leonard Adleman (1945), Evelyn Berezin (1925), Stephen Cook (1939), Richard M. Karp (1935), Richard E. Stearns (1936), and Radia Perlman (1951).

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