COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Jaron Lanier

1960 - Today

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Jaron Zepel Lanier (, born May 3, 1960) is an American computer scientist, visual artist, computer philosophy writer, technologist, futurist, and composer of contemporary classical music. Considered a founder of the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and wired gloves. In the late 1990s, Lanier worked on applications for Internet2, and in the 2000s, he was a visiting scholar at Silicon Graphics and various universities. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jaron Lanier has received more than 2,069,724 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Jaron Lanier is the 138th most popular computer scientist (down from 135th in 2019), the 7,666th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,043rd in 2019) and the 83rd most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 2.1M

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  • 53.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Jaron Lanier ranks 138 out of 245. Before him are James Rumbaugh, Needleman–Wunsch algorithm, Annie Easley, Michael Stonebraker, Yukihiro Matsumoto, and Robert Tarjan. After him are Silvio Micali, Subhash Kak, Robert Tappan Morris, Thomas E. Kurtz, David Patterson, and Christos Papadimitriou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Jaron Lanier ranks 293. Before him are Barbara Broccoli, Simon Gallup, Takashi Tezuka, Leland Orser, John Billingsley, and Semir Osmanagić. After him are Nils Petter Molvær, Stefan Yanev, John Schneider, Moussa Faki, Wakin Chau, and Kyle Gass.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jaron Lanier ranks 7,666 out of 20,380. Before him are Ken Curtis (1916), Ruth Brown (1928), Hayden Panettiere (1989), Lauren Lane (1961), Tom Kenny (1962), and Alvin M. Weinberg (1915). After him are Eric Andre (1983), Robert T. Bakker (1945), Carrie Chapman Catt (1859), Morris Kline (1908), Oliver Evans (1755), and Diane di Prima (1934).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Jaron Lanier ranks 83. Before him are Hal Finney (1956), Jack Dorsey (1976), James Rumbaugh (1947), Annie Easley (1933), Michael Stonebraker (1943), and Robert Tarjan (1948). After him are Robert Tappan Morris (1965), Thomas E. Kurtz (1928), David Patterson (1947), Kent Beck (1961), E. Allen Emerson (1954), and Randy Pausch (1960).

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