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Mary Kenneth Keller

1913 - 1985

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Mary Kenneth Keller, B.V.M. (December 17, 1913 – January 10, 1985) was an American Catholic religious sister, educator and pioneer in computer science. She was one of the first people, and the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science in the United States. Keller and Irving C. Tang were the first two recipients of computer science doctorates (Keller's Ph.D. and Tang's D.Sc. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Kenneth Keller has received more than 233,764 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Mary Kenneth Keller is the 90th most popular computer scientist (down from 67th in 2019), the 5,034th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,243rd in 2019) and the 57th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 23

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Mary Kenneth Keller ranks 90 out of 245. Before her are Jacques Vallée, Eugene Garfield, Larry Tesler, Eric S. Raymond, John Henry Holland, and Ivar Jacobson. After her are Manuel Blum, Abraham Lempel, Robin Milner, Adam Osborne, Yann LeCun, and Liviu Librescu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Mary Kenneth Keller ranks 193. Before her are Benjamin Markarian, Woody Herman, Tokutaro Ukon, Gina Bachauer, Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen, and Mark Robson. After her are Walter Andreas Schwarz, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Kalpana Datta, Gheorghe Apostol, Julius Döpfner, and Rudolf Noack. Among people deceased in 1985, Mary Kenneth Keller ranks 140. Before her are Bodil Joensen, Ladislav Ženíšek, Clarence Nash, Michel Audiard, Laura Ashley, and Gale Sondergaard. After her are Josef Čtyřoký, Dawn Addams, Samantha Smith, Israel Regardie, Jan de Quay, and Aksel Airo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Kenneth Keller ranks 5,034 out of 20,380. Before her are George Burns (1896), Mary Agnes Chase (1869), Rhonda Fleming (1923), Ty Burrell (1967), Safdie brothers (null), and Gale Sondergaard (1899). After her are Abella Danger (1995), Lawrence Tierney (1919), John Elkann (1976), Jim Walton (1948), Anna Lea Merritt (1844), and Cecil Taylor (1929).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Mary Kenneth Keller ranks 57. Before her are Gil Amelio (1943), Marlyn Meltzer (1922), Eugene Garfield (1925), Larry Tesler (1945), Eric S. Raymond (1957), and John Henry Holland (1929). After her are Ed Roberts (1941), Betty Holberton (1917), Jean Bartik (1924), Anita Borg (1949), Adele Goldberg (1945), and Robert W. Floyd (1936).

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