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Rob Pike

1956 - Today

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Robert Pike (born 1956) is a Canadian programmer and author. He is best known for his work on the Go programming language while working at Google and the Plan 9 operating system while working at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team. Pike wrote the first window system for Unix in 1981. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rob Pike has received more than 919,487 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Rob Pike is the 167th most popular computer scientist (down from 138th in 2019), the 585th most popular biography from Canada (down from 459th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Canadian Computer Scientist.

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  • 920k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Rob Pike ranks 167 out of 245. Before him are Andy Hertzfeld, Michael Dertouzos, Bruce Schneier, Hal Abelson, Gary McKinnon, and Grady Booch. After him are Jean E. Sammet, Ruzena Bajcsy, Brewster Kahle, Jon Hall, Evan Williams, and Ralph Merkle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Rob Pike ranks 473. Before him are Dorothy Hamill, Yury Trutnev, Asha-Rose Migiro, Chris Ellis, Gabriela von Habsburg, and Julee Cruise. After him are Hisashi Kato, Steve Archibald, Anne Dudley, Ilana Kloss, Diamond Dallas Page, and Peter Tomka.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Rob Pike ranks 585 out of 1,622. Before him are Robert H. MacArthur (1930), Angela Hewitt (1958), Patrick Roy (1965), Mackenzie Davis (1987), Ross Cuthbert (1892), and Charles Coughlin (1891). After him are Deryck Whibley (1980), Estella Warren (1978), Daniel Powter (1971), George Cloutier (1876), Enrico Colantoni (1963), and Dorothy Brookshaw (1912).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Canada

Among computer scientists born in Canada, Rob Pike ranks 6. Before him are James Gosling (1955), Brian Kernighan (1942), Alfred Aho (1941), John Draper (1943), and Kenneth E. Iverson (1920). After him are Gilles Brassard (1955), and Maria Klawe (1951).

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