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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

John Hopcroft

1939 - Today

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John Edward Hopcroft (born October 7, 1939) is an American theoretical computer scientist. His textbooks on theory of computation (also known as the Cinderella book) and data structures are regarded as standards in their fields. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Hopcroft has received more than 202,045 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). John Hopcroft is the 99th most popular computer scientist (up from 113th in 2019), the 5,839th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,057th in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, John Hopcroft ranks 99 out of 201. Before him are Marlyn Meltzer, Radia Perlman, Joseph Sifakis, Eugene Garfield, Manuel Blum, and Edmund M. Clarke. After him are Jan Koum, Robert C. Martin, Betty Holberton, Evan Williams, Peter Norton, and Scott Fahlman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, John Hopcroft ranks 319. Before him are Joe Clark, Charles Geschke, Ernie Davis, Maeve Binchy, Merab Kostava, and Litokwa Tomeing. After him are Abdelmajid Chetali, Theo Waigel, Rustam Ibragimbekov, Yves Boisset, János Göröcs, and Michael J. Pollard.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Hopcroft ranks 5,839 out of 18,182. Before him are Gilbert Gottfried (1955), Colleen Camp (1953), George Peabody (1795), Peggy Whitson (1960), Doug Hutchison (1960), and Marni Nixon (1930). After him are John Thomas (1941), Alex Rodriguez (1975), Tim Blake Nelson (1964), Charles Jewtraw (1900), Shannon Elizabeth (1973), and Julian Jaynes (1920).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, John Hopcroft ranks 61. Before him are Robert W. Floyd (1936), Robert Taylor (1932), Marlyn Meltzer (1922), Radia Perlman (1951), Eugene Garfield (1925), and Edmund M. Clarke (1945). After him are Betty Holberton (1917), Evan Williams (1972), Peter Norton (1943), Scott Fahlman (1948), James H. Clark (1944), and Michael Stonebraker (1943).

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