COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Ian Murdock

1973 - 2015

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Ian Ashley Murdock (April 28, 1973 – December 28, 2015) was an American software engineer, known for being the founder of the Debian project and Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial Linux company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ian Murdock has received more than 893,436 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Ian Murdock is the 195th most popular computer scientist (down from 174th in 2019), the 5,817th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,994th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Computer Scientist.

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  • 40.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Ian Murdock ranks 195 out of 245Before him are Hans Reiser, Elizabeth J. Feinler, Douglas Crockford, Erich Gamma, Alan Cox, and Chieko Asakawa. After him are Sophie Wilson, Gilles Brassard, Alexandra Elbakyan, Daphne Koller, Martin Odersky, and Theo de Raadt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1973, Ian Murdock ranks 442Before him are Carmine Giovinazzo, Enrique Murciano, Malaika Arora, Irakli Okruashvili, Ahmed Best, and David Draiman. After him are Christian Cage, Édouard Ngirente, Mario Lopez, Sargis Sargsian, Lenka Kotková, and Natsuki Takaya. Among people deceased in 2015, Ian Murdock ranks 501Before him are Mokhtar Belmokhtar, John Trudell, Dickie Moore, Asuman Baytop, Frank Borghi, and M. H. Abrams. After him are Svetlana Kitova, Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Ferenc Konrád, Amanda Peterson, Ali Treki, and Florența Mihai.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ian Murdock ranks 5,817 out of 7,253Before him are Judith Hermann (1970), Julian Weigl (1995), Peter Scholze (1987), Uwe Peschel (1968), Kirsten Emmelmann (1961), and Werner von Moltke (1936). After him are Jacky Terrasson (1965), Thomas Schönlebe (1965), René Adler (1985), David Odonkor (1984), Uli Vos (1946), and Erwin Sellering (1949).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Germany

Among computer scientists born in Germany, Ian Murdock ranks 3Before him are Joseph Weizenbaum (1923), and Rudolf Bayer (1939). After him are Daniel Domscheit-Berg (1978), Werner Koch (1961), Tron (1972), Denny Vrandečić (1978), and Coraline Ada Ehmke (2000).