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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Randy Pausch

1960 - 2008

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Randolph Frederick Pausch () (October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was an American educator, a professor of computer science, human–computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pausch learned he had pancreatic cancer in September 2006. In August 2007, he was given a terminal diagnosis: "three to six months of good health left". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Randy Pausch has received more than 1,512,045 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Randy Pausch is the 133rd most popular computer scientist (down from 118th in 2019), the 8,015th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,289th in 2019) and the 80th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 44.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Randy Pausch ranks 133 out of 201. Before him are Richard E. Stearns, Andy Rubin, Gary McKinnon, Anita Borg, Bill Joy, and Charles P. Thacker. After him are Audrey Tang, Jaron Lanier, James Rumbaugh, David Patterson, Rob Pike, and Robert Tarjan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Randy Pausch ranks 303. Before him are Dorothy Stratten, Alain Geiger, Bruno Heller, Nils Petter Molvær, John Taylor, and Maho Shimizu. After him are Kurt Sutter, Jaron Lanier, Elmar Mammadyarov, Artur Yusupov, Toke Talagi, and Eliane Elias. Among people deceased in 2008, Randy Pausch ranks 266. Before him are Yegor Letov, František Čapek, Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan, Jimmy Stewart, Jo Stafford, and Alton Ellis. After him are William F. Buckley Jr., Estelle Reiner, Jesse Helms, Monica Lovinescu, Harvey Korman, and Buddy Miles.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Randy Pausch ranks 8,015 out of 18,182. Before him are Wayne Static (1965), Larry Kramer (1935), Dwight Howard (1985), Lucy Hale (1989), June Gable (1945), and Bobby Hutcherson (1941). After him are Dennis Johnson (1954), Joseph Nicolosi (1947), Mark Rydell (1929), Edgar Kennedy (1890), William F. Buckley Jr. (1925), and Lloyd Bentsen (1921).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Randy Pausch ranks 80. Before him are Shafi Goldwasser (1958), Richard E. Stearns (1936), Andy Rubin (1963), Anita Borg (1949), Bill Joy (1954), and Charles P. Thacker (1943). After him are Jaron Lanier (1960), James Rumbaugh (1947), David Patterson (1947), Robert Tarjan (1948), Steve Russell (1937), and Kent Beck (1961).

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