COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Phil Katz

1962 - 2000

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Phillip Walter Katz (November 3, 1962 – April 14, 2000) was a computer programmer best known as the co-creator of the ZIP file format for data compression, and the author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files that ran under DOS. A copyright lawsuit between System Enhancement Associates (SEA) and Katz's company, PKWARE, was widely publicized in the BBS community in the late 1980s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Phil Katz has received more than 313,217 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Phil Katz is the 217th most popular computer scientist (down from 180th in 2019), the 15,231st most popular biography from United States (down from 11,970th in 2019) and the 114th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 35.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Phil Katz ranks 217 out of 245. Before him are Stuart J. Russell, Werner Koch, John Ousterhout, Eric Allman, Tron, and Dariusz Jemielniak. After him are Bram Cohen, Demis Hassabis, Steve Wilhite, Ilya Sutskever, Bassel Khartabil, and Mark Overmars.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Phil Katz ranks 766. Before him are Kevin Willis, Julia Campbell, Robert Curbeam, Ram Gopal Varma, David DeCoteau, and Bengt Baron. After him are Tammy Baldwin, Kauksi Ülle, Nico Rienks, Elena Kountoura, Jan Bartram, and Anna Burns. Among people deceased in 2000, Phil Katz ranks 376. Before him are James Grogan, Jerome Richardson, Cătălin Hîldan, Duane Swanson, Shay Brennan, and Bekzat Sattarkhanov. After him are Antony Padiyara, Nazia Hassan, Mel Carnahan, Usha Kiran, Alan Cranston, and Monster of Florence.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Phil Katz ranks 15,231 out of 20,380. Before him are Micah Christenson (1993), Coco Gauff (2004), Alexis Knapp (1989), Rozonda Thomas (1971), Peter Paige (1969), and Marie Osmond (1959). After him are Susana Martinez (1959), Don DeFore (1913), Daniel C. Burbank (1961), Tom DeLay (1947), Richard Hunt (1951), and Dutch Mantel (1949).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Phil Katz ranks 114. Before him are Douglas Crockford (1955), Paul Buchheit (1977), Craig Federighi (1969), Nancy Lynch (1948), John Ousterhout (1954), and Eric Allman (1955). After him are Bram Cohen (1975), Steve Wilhite (1948), Shawn Fanning (1980), Danny Hillis (1956), Theodore Ts'o (1968), and Katie Bouman (1989).

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