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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 561,329 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Kent Beck is the 146th most popular computer scientist (down from 144th in 2019), the 8,612th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,907th in 2019) and the 86th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 560k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Kent Beck ranks 146 out of 201. Before him are Richard Garriott, Kristen Nygaard, Bertrand Meyer, Steve Russell, Martin Fowler, and Raj Reddy. After him are Bruce Schneier, Tim Paterson, Silvio Micali, Brewster Kahle, Christos Papadimitriou, and Dave Cutler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Kent Beck ranks 325. Before him are Fabio Biondi, Armin Veh, Fausto Gresini, Laurent Cantet, Rune Bratseth, and Corinne Hermès. After him are Douglas Coupland, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Yordanka Donkova, João Pinto, Luis Herrera, and Tarsem Singh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kent Beck ranks 8,612 out of 18,182. Before him are Kim Stanley (1925), Steven Bochco (1943), Stanton T. Friedman (1934), Neil Burger (2000), William Blum (1933), and David Simon (1960). After him are Audrey Munson (1891), William Hogenson (1884), John Michael Talbot (1954), Mike Godwin (1956), George Kojac (1910), and Lois Wilson (1894).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Kent Beck ranks 86. Before him are Randy Pausch (1960), Jaron Lanier (1960), James Rumbaugh (1947), David Patterson (1947), Robert Tarjan (1948), and Steve Russell (1937). After him are Bruce Schneier (1963), Brewster Kahle (1960), Dave Cutler (1942), Grady Booch (1955), Jean E. Sammet (1928), and Robert Tappan Morris (1965).

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