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 215,437 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Leslie Valiant is the 145th most popular computer scientist (up from 172nd in 2019), the 665th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 674th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Computer Scientist.

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  • 220k

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  • 52.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Leslie Valiant ranks 145 out of 245. Before him are Silvio Micali, Subhash Kak, Robert Tappan Morris, Thomas E. Kurtz, David Patterson, and Christos Papadimitriou. After him are Richard Garriott, Kent Beck, Paul Graham, Rudolf Bayer, Vitalik Buterin, and E. Allen Emerson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Leslie Valiant ranks 541. Before him are Jan Egil Storholt, Ian Charleson, Christos Papadimitriou, Emma Kirkby, Sanja Iveković, and Christian Dalger. After him are Bohuslav Šťastný, Paruyr Hayrikyan, James Wani Igga, Armin Shimerman, Mavuba Mafuila, and Hildegard Falck.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Leslie Valiant ranks 665 out of 1,077. Before him are Károly Dietz (1885), Olga Tass (1929), Antal Kiss (1935), József Szájer (1961), Attila Csihar (1971), and Kolos Ferenc Vaszary (1832). After him are George Mikes (1912), Jenő Dalnoki (1932), Hilda Gobbi (1913), Gyula Rákosi (1938), Pál Dárdai (1976), and József Pálinkás (1912).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Hungary

Among computer scientists born in Hungary, Leslie Valiant ranks 1. 

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