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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Leslie Valiant

1949 - Today

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Leslie Gabriel Valiant (born 28 March 1949) is a British American computer scientist and computational theorist. He was born to a chemical engineer father and a translator mother. He is currently the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. Valiant was awarded the Turing Award in 2010, having been described by the A.C.M. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leslie Valiant has received more than 193,861 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Leslie Valiant is the 172nd most popular computer scientist (down from 160th in 2019), the 676th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 549th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Computer Scientist.

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  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Leslie Valiant ranks 172 out of 201Before him are Ralph Merkle, Yoshua Bengio, Alexandra Elbakyan, Bruce Perens, E. Allen Emerson, and Pat Hanrahan. After him are Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Ian Murdock, Jon Hall, Geir Ivarsøy, Kathleen Booth, and Erich Gamma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Leslie Valiant ranks 626Before him are Pat Rice, Peter Piot, Ludwig Schick, Chicão, Isabelle Mir, and Dorothy Allison. After him are Natalya Lebedeva, Julio Cardeñosa, John Curry, Hannu Siitonen, Daniel Leclercq, and Hank Williams Jr..

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Leslie Valiant ranks 676 out of 866Before him are Károly Takács (1910), László Jeney (1923), Márton Homonnai (1906), László Cseh (1985), István Szívós (1948), and Tamás Faragó (1952). After him are Géza Kádas (1926), Zsolt Baumgartner (1981), Andrea Gyarmati (1954), Béla Várady (1953), Kornél Mundruczó (1975), and Péter Szijjártó (1978).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Hungary

Among computer scientists born in Hungary, Leslie Valiant ranks 1