COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Manuel Blum

1938 - Today

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Manuel Blum (born 26 April 1938) is a Venezuelan born American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Manuel Blum has received more than 335,168 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Manuel Blum is the 91st most popular computer scientist (up from 97th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Venezuela (up from 47th in 2019) and the most popular Venezuelan Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 340k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Manuel Blums by language

Over the past year Manuel Blum has had the most page views in the with 42,631 views, followed by Spanish (5,495), and German (3,804). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Azerbaijani (82.37%), Indonesian (65.81%), and Esperanto (51.38%)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Manuel Blum ranks 91 out of 245. Before him are Eugene Garfield, Larry Tesler, Eric S. Raymond, John Henry Holland, Ivar Jacobson, and Mary Kenneth Keller. After him are Abraham Lempel, Robin Milner, Adam Osborne, Yann LeCun, Liviu Librescu, and John Draper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Manuel Blum ranks 312. Before him are Jaki Liebezeit, Stephen Breyer, Shi Pei Pu, Giorgia Moll, Henk Groot, and Pat Buchanan. After him are Bahram Beyzai, Charles Starkweather, Leonid Zhabotinsky, Tang Jiaxuan, Tony Renis, and Sigitas Tamkevičius.

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In Venezuela

Among people born in Venezuela, Manuel Blum ranks 45 out of 183. Before him are Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo (1944), Luis Herrera Campins (1925), Juan Guaidó (1983), Jesús Rafael Soto (1923), Arturo Sosa (1948), and Germán Suárez Flamerich (1907). After him are Leonardo Jardim (1974), Gabriela Spanic (1973), Susana Duijm (1936), Carlos Soublette (1789), Isaías Medina Angarita (1897), and José María Vargas (1786).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Venezuela

Among computer scientists born in Venezuela, Manuel Blum ranks 1. 

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