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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

J. C. R. Licklider

1915 - 1990

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Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (; March 11, 1915 – June 26, 1990), known simply as J. C. R. or "Lick", was an American psychologist and computer scientist who is considered to be among the most prominent figures in computer science development and general computing history. He is particularly remembered for being one of the first to foresee modern-style interactive computing and its application to all manner of activities; and also as an Internet pioneer with an early vision of a worldwide computer network long before it was built. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. C. R. Licklider has received more than 520,459 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. J. C. R. Licklider is the 33rd most popular computer scientist (down from 27th in 2019), the 2,361st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,205th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 520k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, J. C. R. Licklider ranks 33 out of 201. Before him are Jef Raskin, Leonard Kleinrock, Kevin Mitnick, Tony Hoare, Ivan Sutherland, and Barbara Liskov. After him are Luigi Federico Menabrea, Peter Naur, Ken Kutaragi, Maurice Wilkes, Brian Kernighan, and Nolan Bushnell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, J. C. R. Licklider ranks 73. Before him are Tadeusz Kantor, Branko Ćopić, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Alicia Rhett, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., and Thomas Merton. After him are Prince George William of Hanover, Hanns Martin Schleyer, Shogo Kamo, Ross Macdonald, C. W. Ceram, and Georgy Sviridov. Among people deceased in 1990, J. C. R. Licklider ranks 74. Before him are Tadeusz Kantor, Nicola Abbagnano, Manuel Puig, Meir Kahane, José Figueres Ferrer, and Taro Kagawa. After him are Tom Fogerty, Dexter Gordon, Shigeo Shingo, Arthur Kennedy, Vaso Čubrilović, and Michel Leiris.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, J. C. R. Licklider ranks 2,361 out of 18,182. Before him are Karen Carpenter (1950), Robert F. Engle (1942), Charles Martin Hall (1863), Van Cliburn (1934), James Montgomery Flagg (1877), and Don Taylor (1920). After him are Miguel Ferrer (1955), Holly Hunter (1958), Andrew Cunanan (1969), Jean Kennedy Smith (1928), Bud Powell (1924), and George Phillips Bond (1825).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, J. C. R. Licklider ranks 22. Before him are Ward Cunningham (1949), Jef Raskin (1943), Leonard Kleinrock (1934), Kevin Mitnick (1963), Ivan Sutherland (1938), and Barbara Liskov (1939). After him are Nolan Bushnell (1943), Allen Newell (1927), Jack Dorsey (1976), Frances E. Allen (1932), Don Norman (1935), and Leslie Lamport (1941).

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