COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Kent Beck

1961 - Today

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Kent Beck (born 1961) is an American software engineer and the creator of extreme programming, a software development methodology that eschews rigid formal specification for a collaborative and iterative design process. Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto, the founding document for agile software development. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kent Beck has received more than 598,715 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Kent Beck is the 147th most popular computer scientist (down from 146th in 2019), the 8,741st most popular biography from United States (down from 8,594th in 2019) and the 87th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 600k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Kent Beck ranks 147 out of 245. Before him are Robert Tappan Morris, Thomas E. Kurtz, David Patterson, Christos Papadimitriou, Leslie Valiant, and Richard Garriott. After him are Paul Graham, Rudolf Bayer, Vitalik Buterin, E. Allen Emerson, David Marr, and Kathleen Booth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Kent Beck ranks 346. Before him are Toni Nadal, Luigi De Agostini, Irfan Smajlagić, Evan Handler, Rae Dawn Chong, and Richard Garriott. After him are Unsuk Chin, Corinne Hermès, Arnór Guðjohnsen, Mike Dunleavy, Malu Dreyer, and Can Dündar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kent Beck ranks 8,741 out of 20,380. Before him are Nunnally Johnson (1897), John Aylward (1946), James Parrott (1897), Hamilton Fish (1808), John Adair (1757), and Vincent Youmans (1898). After him are Lloyd Fredendall (1883), Morten Lauridsen (1943), Steve Anderson (1906), G. Gordon Liddy (1930), John F. Kelly (1950), and Gerry Goffin (1939).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Kent Beck ranks 87. Before him are Michael Stonebraker (1943), Robert Tarjan (1948), Jaron Lanier (1960), Robert Tappan Morris (1965), Thomas E. Kurtz (1928), and David Patterson (1947). After him are E. Allen Emerson (1954), Randy Pausch (1960), James H. Clark (1944), Steve Russell (1937), Andy Hertzfeld (1953), and Bruce Schneier (1963).

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