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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 1,985,428 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Jaron Lanier is the 135th most popular computer scientist (down from 122nd in 2019), the 8,058th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,484th in 2019) and the 81st most popular American Computer Scientist.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Jaron Lanier ranks 135 out of 201. Before him are Gary McKinnon, Anita Borg, Bill Joy, Charles P. Thacker, Randy Pausch, and Audrey Tang. After him are James Rumbaugh, David Patterson, Rob Pike, Robert Tarjan, Richard Garriott, and Kristen Nygaard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Jaron Lanier ranks 305. Before him are Bruno Heller, Nils Petter Molvær, John Taylor, Maho Shimizu, Randy Pausch, and Kurt Sutter. After him are Elmar Mammadyarov, Artur Yusupov, Toke Talagi, Eliane Elias, Rachel Portman, and Holly Johnson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jaron Lanier ranks 8,058 out of 18,182. Before him are Carl Lumbly (1951), Kurt Sutter (1960), Leslie Uggams (1943), Gabrielle Union (1972), Laura Ramsey (1982), and Sidney Blackmer (1895). After him are Kevin Systrom (1983), Matt Biondi (1965), John Kander (1927), Summer Glau (1981), H. C. Robbins Landon (1926), and Anthony Denison (1949).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Jaron Lanier ranks 81. Before him are Richard E. Stearns (1936), Andy Rubin (1963), Anita Borg (1949), Bill Joy (1954), Charles P. Thacker (1943), and Randy Pausch (1960). After him are James Rumbaugh (1947), David Patterson (1947), Robert Tarjan (1948), Steve Russell (1937), Kent Beck (1961), and Bruce Schneier (1963).

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