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 847,439 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Ian Murdock is the 194th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 850k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 40.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ian Murdocks by language

Over the past year Ian Murdock has had the most page views in the with 81,359 views, followed by German (8,436), and French (7,737). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (51.56%), Simple English (47.53%), and English (42.43%)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Ian Murdock ranks 194 out of 245. Before 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 442. Before 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 501. Before 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 7,253. Before 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).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Germany

Among computer scientists born in Germany, Ian Murdock ranks 3. Before 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).

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