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Leslie Lamport

1941 - Today

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Leslie B. Lamport (born February 7, 1941) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed systems, and as the initial developer of the document preparation system LaTeX and the author of its first manual.Lamport was the winner of the 2013 Turing Award for imposing clear, well-defined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed computing systems, in which several autonomous computers communicate with each other by passing messages. He devised important algorithms and developed formal modeling and verification protocols that improve the quality of real distributed systems. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leslie Lamport has received more than 889,012 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Leslie Lamport is the 51st most popular computer scientist (down from 44th in 2019), the 3,312th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,133rd in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 890k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Leslie Lamports by language

Over the past year Leslie Lamport has had the most page views in the with 102,816 views, followed by German (10,907), and Chinese (5,468). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (46,300.00%), Basque (44,300.00%), and Simple English (28,000.00%)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Leslie Lamport ranks 51 out of 245. Before him are Joseph Weizenbaum, John Cocke, James Gosling, Brian Kernighan, Nolan Bushnell, and Fred Brooks. After him are Geoffrey Hinton, Edwin Catmull, Vernor Vinge, Don Norman, Warren Weaver, and Larry Wall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Leslie Lamport ranks 207. Before him are Ivanka Khristova, Carla Gravina, Esther Ofarim, Harald Nielsen, Edmund Stoiber, and Prince William of Gloucester. After him are Ken Saro-Wiwa, Wilson Pickett, Denys Arcand, Robert D. Putnam, Chrysostomos II of Cyprus, and Walid Muallem.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leslie Lamport ranks 3,312 out of 20,380. Before him are Fred Brooks (1931), John Gavin (1931), Tracey Adams (1958), Rusty Schweickart (1935), Paul Giamatti (1967), and P. J. Kennedy (1858). After him are Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823), Frankie Valli (1934), Halsey (1994), Gerry Mulligan (1927), Lauren Graham (1967), and Richard Jordan (1937).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Leslie Lamport ranks 31. Before him are Edmund M. Clarke (1945), Charles Bachman (1924), J. C. R. Licklider (1915), John Cocke (1925), Nolan Bushnell (1943), and Fred Brooks (1931). After him are Edwin Catmull (1945), Vernor Vinge (1944), Don Norman (1935), Warren Weaver (1894), Larry Wall (1954), and Ron Rivest (1947).

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