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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 704,782 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Larry Tesler is the 86th most popular computer scientist (down from 63rd in 2019), the 4,934th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,094th in 2019) and the 54th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 700k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Larry Tesler ranks 86 out of 245. Before him are Radia Perlman, Ruth Teitelbaum, Gil Amelio, Marlyn Meltzer, Jacques Vallée, and Eugene Garfield. After him are Eric S. Raymond, John Henry Holland, Ivar Jacobson, Mary Kenneth Keller, Manuel Blum, and Abraham Lempel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Larry Tesler ranks 321. Before him are Jeremy Bulloch, Jörg Immendorff, John Rutter, Brian Connolly, Faustin Twagiramungu, and Norio Wakamoto. After him are Abdelaziz Belkhadem, John McVie, Alexander Markovich Polyakov, Rita Coolidge, Willeke Alberti, and Ronee Blakley. Among people deceased in 2020, Larry Tesler ranks 299. Before him are Johnny Nash, Jeremy Bulloch, Duje Bonačić, Edén Pastora, Wojciech Pszoniak, and Pim Doesburg. After him are Alexi Laiho, Joseph Vilsmaier, Rhonda Fleming, Brent Scowcroft, Tonie Marshall, and Jaroslav Pollák.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Larry Tesler ranks 4,934 out of 20,380. Before him are Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774), James Russell Lowell (1819), Whitcomb L. Judson (1846), John Lewis (1920), Seann William Scott (1976), and Dennis Frederiksen (1951). After him are Chester Conklin (1886), Jack Haley (1898), Bessie Love (1898), Lennie Tristano (1919), Antoine Fuqua (1966), and Dean Jagger (1903).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Larry Tesler ranks 54. Before him are Richard E. Stearns (1936), Radia Perlman (1951), Ruth Teitelbaum (1924), Gil Amelio (1943), Marlyn Meltzer (1922), and Eugene Garfield (1925). After him are Eric S. Raymond (1957), John Henry Holland (1929), Mary Kenneth Keller (1913), Ed Roberts (1941), Betty Holberton (1917), and Jean Bartik (1924).

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