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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 338,790 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Manuel Blum is the 97th most popular computer scientist (down from 78th in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Venezuela (down from 38th in 2019) and the most popular Venezuelan Computer Scientist.

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  • 340k

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  • 48.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Manuel Blum ranks 97 out of 201Before him are Robert Taylor, Stephen Wolfram, Marlyn Meltzer, Radia Perlman, Joseph Sifakis, and Eugene Garfield. After him are Edmund M. Clarke, John Hopcroft, Jan Koum, Robert C. Martin, Betty Holberton, and Evan Williams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Manuel Blum ranks 314Before him are Antonio Maria Vegliò, Jonathan Motzfeldt, James Farentino, Edda Moser, Rika Zaraï, and Paul Morrissey. After him are Huang Ju, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Sawa, Klaus Hänsch, Janet Reno, and Paolo Romeo.

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In Venezuela

Among people born in Venezuela, Manuel Blum ranks 47 out of 155Before him are Octavio Lepage (1923), Susana Duijm (1936), Luis Herrera Campins (1925), Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo (1944), Gustavo Dudamel (1981), and Arturo Uslar Pietri (1906). After him are Wolfgang Larrazábal (1911), José Tadeo Monagas (1784), Carlos Soublette (1789), Isaías Medina Angarita (1897), Germán Suárez Flamerich (1907), and Andrew Divoff (1955).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Venezuela

Among computer scientists born in Venezuela, Manuel Blum ranks 1