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Leonard Kleinrock

1934 - Today

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Leonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. In the early 1960s, Kleinrock pioneered the application of queueing theory to model delays in message switching networks in his Ph.D. thesis, published as a book in 1964. In the late 1960s and 1970s, he played an influential role in the development of the ARPANET. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonard Kleinrock has received more than 427,456 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Leonard Kleinrock is the 35th most popular computer scientist (down from 28th in 2019), the 2,350th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,111th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Leonard Kleinrocks by language

Over the past year Leonard Kleinrock has had the most page views in the with 38,402 views, followed by Indonesian (18,069), and Spanish (7,743). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Czech (297.08%), Azerbaijani (59.88%), and Serbian (45.49%)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Leonard Kleinrock ranks 35 out of 245. Before him are Barbara Liskov, Tony Hoare, Allen Newell, Satoshi Nakamoto, Luigi Federico Menabrea, and Ken Kutaragi. After him are Maurice Wilkes, Juris Hartmanis, Jef Raskin, Alan Perlis, Frances E. Allen, and Edmund M. Clarke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Leonard Kleinrock ranks 123. Before him are Howard Martin Temin, Wilford Brimley, Jean Chrétien, Dashrath Manjhi, Hank Aaron, and William F. Sharpe. After him are Claude Berri, George Segal, George Chakiris, Ken Rosewall, Franc Rode, and Alisa Freindlich.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leonard Kleinrock ranks 2,350 out of 20,380. Before him are Bridget Fonda (1964), Frank Stallone (1950), Bess Truman (1885), Daniel McFadden (1937), Annie Potts (1952), and Dwight F. Davis (1879). After him are Gordon Scott (1926), George Lakoff (1941), Paul Goodman (1911), Al Di Meola (1954), Michael DeBakey (1908), and Irvin Kershner (1923).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Leonard Kleinrock ranks 21. Before him are Alan Kay (1940), Larry Page (1973), Kevin Mitnick (1963), Ward Cunningham (1949), Barbara Liskov (1939), and Allen Newell (1927). After him are Jef Raskin (1943), Alan Perlis (1922), Frances E. Allen (1932), Edmund M. Clarke (1945), Charles Bachman (1924), and J. C. R. Licklider (1915).

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