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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Larry Tesler

1945 - 2020

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Lawrence Gordon Tesler (April 24, 1945 – February 16, 2020) was an American computer scientist who worked in the field of human–computer interaction. Tesler worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo!. While at PARC, Tesler's work included Smalltalk, the first dynamic object-oriented programming language, and Gypsy, the first word processor with a graphical user interface (GUI) for the Xerox Alto. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Larry Tesler has received more than 672,909 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Larry Tesler is the 63rd most popular computer scientist (down from 26th in 2019), the 4,105th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,990th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 670k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Larry Tesler ranks 63 out of 201. Before him are Juris Hartmanis, Jacques Vallée, Alfred Aho, Sergey Lebedev, Larry Wall, and Ole-Johan Dahl. After him are Gary Kildall, Adam Osborne, Dana Scott, Mary Kenneth Keller, John Draper, and John Henry Holland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Larry Tesler ranks 238. Before him are Earl Boen, Anselm Grün, Thilo Sarrazin, Michael Nouri, Bob Klose, and John Perkins. After him are Doug Clifford, Al Stewart, Bob Balaban, Brian Connolly, Awad Hamed al-Bandar, and Leif G. W. Persson. Among people deceased in 2020, Larry Tesler ranks 231. Before him are John Lewis, David Graeber, Park Won-soon, Jean Delumeau, Ernesto Brambilla, and Louis Nirenberg. After him are Silva Batuta, Marian Jaworski, Lee Konitz, Rubem Fonseca, Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, and Sven Wollter.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Larry Tesler ranks 4,105 out of 18,182. Before him are Martha Chase (1927), James P. Allison (1948), Michael Buffer (1944), Robert Crumb (1943), Brad Bird (1957), and Eve Meyer (1928). After him are Jon Postel (1943), Alice Paul (1885), Pharrell Williams (1973), Spencer Johnson (1938), James Russell Lowell (1819), and Chuck Connors (1921).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Larry Tesler ranks 38. Before him are Jay Wright Forrester (1918), Alan Perlis (1922), Edwin Catmull (1945), Vernor Vinge (1944), Gil Amelio (1943), and Larry Wall (1954). After him are Gary Kildall (1942), Dana Scott (1932), Mary Kenneth Keller (1913), John Henry Holland (1929), John Cocke (1925), and Ron Rivest (1947).

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