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Karen Spärck Jones

1935 - 2007

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Karen Ida Boalth Spärck Jones (26 August 1935 – 4 April 2007) was a self-taught programmer and a pioneering British computer scientist responsible for the concept of inverse document frequency (IDF), a technology that underlies most modern search engines. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karen Spärck Jones has received more than 206,516 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Karen Spärck Jones is the 98th most popular computer scientist (up from 112th in 2019), the 2,971st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,467th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Computer Scientist.

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  • 49.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Karen Spärck Jones ranks 98 out of 245. Before her are Abraham Lempel, Robin Milner, Adam Osborne, Yann LeCun, Liviu Librescu, and John Draper. After her are Ed Roberts, Betty Holberton, Jean Bartik, Stephen Wolfram, Paul G. Comba, and Anita Borg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Karen Spärck Jones ranks 276. Before her are Grant Green, Christina Pickles, Ryhor Baradulin, Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Tarcísio Meira, and Brian G. Hutton. After her are Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Ronald Lacey, Michael Winner, Katalin Szőke, Pjetër Arbnori, and Gary Peacock. Among people deceased in 2007, Karen Spärck Jones ranks 217. Before her are Liviu Librescu, John Winter, Joachim Hansen, Solveig Dommartin, Alan Ball Jr., and Paulinho de Almeida. After her are Betty Hutton, Édouard Gagnon, Isidore Isou, Floyd Westerman, Petr Eben, and Ernesto Alonso.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Karen Spärck Jones ranks 2,971 out of 8,785. Before her are Charles Dawson (1864), Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798), John Soane (1753), Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (1436), Amy Robsart (1532), and Philip Henry Gosse (1810). After her are Robert Knox (1791), Anthony Phillips (1951), William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891), Michael Oakeshott (1901), Susanna Hall (1583), and Sue Townsend (1946).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, Karen Spärck Jones ranks 8. Before her are Tim Berners-Lee (1955), Edgar F. Codd (1923), Maurice Wilkes (1913), Geoffrey Hinton (1947), James H. Wilkinson (1919), and Robin Milner (1934). After her are Stephen Wolfram (1959), Richard Garriott (1961), Paul Graham (1964), David Marr (1945), Kathleen Booth (1922), and Martin Fowler (1963).

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