COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Ken Kutaragi

1950 - Today

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Ken Kutaragi (久夛良木 健, Kutaragi Ken, born 2 August 1950) is a Japanese engineering technologist and businessman, currently president and CEO of Cyber AI Entertainment. Formerly the chairman and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), the video game division of Sony, Kutaragi is known as "The Father of the PlayStation" having overseen the development of the original console and its successors and spinoffs until departing the company in 2007, shortly after the PlayStation 3 was released. Kutaragi had also designed the sound processor for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ken Kutaragi has received more than 623,302 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Ken Kutaragi is the 34th most popular computer scientist (up from 36th in 2019), the 556th most popular biography from Japan (up from 576th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Computer Scientist.

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  • 620k

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  • 56.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Ken Kutaragi ranks 34 out of 245. Before him are Ward Cunningham, Barbara Liskov, Tony Hoare, Allen Newell, Satoshi Nakamoto, and Luigi Federico Menabrea. After him are Leonard Kleinrock, Maurice Wilkes, Juris Hartmanis, Jef Raskin, Alan Perlis, and Frances E. Allen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Ken Kutaragi ranks 110. Before him are John Landis, James Rothman, Joe Perry, Tom Petty, Barbara Sukowa, and Terry Gou. After him are Steve McCurry, Nancy Allen, Frank Stallone, Loredana Bertè, Ernesto Samper, and Neil Jordan.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ken Kutaragi ranks 556 out of 6,245. Before him are Takeo Miki (1907), Masayoshi Ōhira (1910), Shibata Katsuie (1522), Fumihito, Prince Akishino (1965), Ankō Itosu (1831), and Jiro Taniguchi (1947). After him are Hosokawa Gracia (1563), Gosho Aoyama (1963), Mikio Naruse (1905), Kiyosi Itô (1915), Emperor Horikawa (1079), and Hibari Misora (1937).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Japan

Among computer scientists born in Japan, Ken Kutaragi ranks 2. Before him are Satoshi Nakamoto (1975). After him are Yukihiro Matsumoto (1965), and Chieko Asakawa (1958).

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