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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 282,192 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Phil Katz is the 180th most popular computer scientist (down from 171st in 2019), the 11,997th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,941st in 2019) and the 99th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Phil Katz ranks 180 out of 201Before him are Ian Murdock, Jon Hall, Geir Ivarsøy, Kathleen Booth, Erich Gamma, and Theo de Raadt. After him are Bassel Khartabil, Douglas Crockford, Luis von Ahn, Sophie Wilson, Hans Reiser, and Werner Koch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Phil Katz ranks 515Before him are Sergei Zalyotin, Elena Cattaneo, George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, Julien Nkoghe Bekale, José Carlos da Costa Araújo, and Tracey Thorn. After him are Zenon Jaskuła, John de Wolf, Norma Cruz, Jennifer Rubin, Anne Enright, and Melissa Rosenberg. Among people deceased in 2000, Phil Katz ranks 308Before him are R. S. Thomas, Lynden Pindling, Joan Marsh, Mae Faggs, Marguerite Churchill, and Athanasios Vouros. After him are Shobhna Samarth, Gail Fisher, Joan Hartigan, Frances Drake, Vincent Canby, and Wilf Mannion.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Phil Katz ranks 11,997 out of 18,182Before him are Bert I. Gordon (1922), Horton Foote (1916), Tommy Godwin (1920), Bridget Marquardt (1973), Gerry Ashworth (1942), and Thomas Ian Nicholas (1980). After him are Dennis Prager (1948), Brandon Flowers (1981), Bob Knight (1940), Rachel Miner (1980), Skylar Grey (1986), and Marcus Mumford (1987).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Phil Katz ranks 99Before him are Andy Hertzfeld (1953), Peter Shor (1959), Paul Buchheit (1977), Ralph Merkle (1952), E. Allen Emerson (1954), and Jon Hall (1950). After him are Douglas Crockford (1955), Hans Reiser (1963), Craig Federighi (1969), Shawn Fanning (1980), John Ousterhout (1954), and Brian Acton (1972).