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Maria Klawe

1951 - Today

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Maria Margaret Klawe ( KLAH-vay; born 1951) is a computer scientist and served as the fifth president of Harvey Mudd College from 2006 to 2023. Born in Toronto in 1951, she became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2009. She was previously Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Klawe has received more than 212,148 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Maria Klawe is the 207th most popular computer scientist (up from 211th in 2019), the 843rd most popular biography from Canada (up from 990th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Canadian Computer Scientist.

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  • 210k

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  • 37.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Maria Klawe ranks 207 out of 245. Before her are Theo de Raadt, Peter Norvig, Rodney Brooks, Paul Buchheit, Christian Engström, and Daniel Domscheit-Berg. After her are Craig Federighi, Nancy Lynch, Fei-Fei Li, Stuart J. Russell, Werner Koch, and John Ousterhout.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Maria Klawe ranks 697. Before her are Pascal Koupaki, Jim Brewer, Bill Walker, Andy Thomas, Peter Chernin, and Steven Hawley. After her are Morgan Brittany, Dianne Holum, Miguel Ángel Gamboa, Tony Rice, Tony Evers, and Giuliano Poletti.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Maria Klawe ranks 843 out of 1,622. Before her are Cory Doctorow (1971), Paulo Costanzo (1978), Meghan Ory (1982), Hazel McCallion (1921), Milt Schmidt (1918), and Jordan Prentice (1973). After her are Harvey Atkin (1942), Ryder Hesjedal (1980), Isabelle Gélinas (1963), Andrea Jung (1959), Natasha St-Pier (1981), and Ian Tracey (1964).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Canada

Among computer scientists born in Canada, Maria Klawe ranks 8. Before her are Brian Kernighan (1942), Alfred Aho (1941), John Draper (1943), Kenneth E. Iverson (1920), Rob Pike (1956), and Gilles Brassard (1955).

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