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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Pat Hanrahan

1954 - Today

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Patrick M. Hanrahan (born 1955) is an American computer graphics researcher, the Canon USA Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University. His research focuses on rendering algorithms, graphics processing units, as well as scientific illustration and visualization. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pat Hanrahan has received more than 253,335 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Pat Hanrahan is the 171st most popular computer scientist (up from 189th in 2019).

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  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Pat Hanrahan ranks 171 out of 201. Before him are Andrew Morton, Ralph Merkle, Yoshua Bengio, Alexandra Elbakyan, Bruce Perens, and E. Allen Emerson. After him are Leslie Valiant, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Ian Murdock, Jon Hall, Geir Ivarsøy, and Kathleen Booth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Pat Hanrahan ranks 518. Before him are Alejandro Casañas, Jill Abramson, Cass Sunstein, Julie Carmen, E. Allen Emerson, and Glen Keane. After him are Alex Cox, Tamara Lazakovich, Daina Taimiņa, Kimmy Robertson, James Gleick, and Brian Teacher.

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