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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Jef Raskin

1943 - 2005

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Jef Raskin (born Jeff Raskin; March 9, 1943 – February 26, 2005) was an American human–computer interface expert who conceived and began leading the Macintosh project at Apple in the late 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jef Raskin has received more than 599,593 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Jef Raskin is the 27th most popular computer scientist (up from 34th in 2019), the 2,034th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,602nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 600k

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  • 57.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Jef Raskin ranks 27 out of 201Before him are Marvin Minsky, Guido van Rossum, Alan Kay, John Backus, Satoshi Nakamoto, and Ward Cunningham. After him are Leonard Kleinrock, Kevin Mitnick, Tony Hoare, Ivan Sutherland, Barbara Liskov, and J. C. R. Licklider.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Jef Raskin ranks 133Before him are Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh, John Nettles, Lorenzo Sanz, Blythe Danner, Masafumi Hara, and Fouad Siniora. After him are Soad Hosny, Leonardo Sandri, Köbi Kuhn, Arturo Merzario, Paul Wolfowitz, and Chris Amon. Among people deceased in 2005, Jef Raskin ranks 70Before him are Carlo Maria Giulini, Richard Smalley, Ba Jin, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Aenne Burda. After him are Narriman Sadek, Maurice Trintignant, Vincent Schiavelli, Melita Norwood, Amrish Puri, and Charly Gaul.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jef Raskin ranks 2,034 out of 18,182Before him are Alice Walker (1944), Justin Timberlake (1981), Frank Borman (1928), Julius Erving (1950), Jerry Reed (1937), and James Ellroy (1948). After him are Frank Borzage (1894), Ted Danson (1947), Al Lettieri (1928), Mercedes McCambridge (1916), Joseph Greenberg (1915), and Louise Brooks (1906).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Jef Raskin ranks 17Before him are Ken Thompson (1943), Dorothy Vaughan (1910), Marvin Minsky (1927), Alan Kay (1940), John Backus (1924), and Ward Cunningham (1949). After him are Leonard Kleinrock (1934), Kevin Mitnick (1963), Ivan Sutherland (1938), Barbara Liskov (1939), J. C. R. Licklider (1915), and Nolan Bushnell (1943).