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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. He is the sole inventor named in the US patent for overlapping windows on a computer display.With Brian Kernighan, he is the co-author of The Practice of Programming and The Unix Programming Environment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rob Pike has received more than 854,664 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Rob Pike is the 138th most popular computer scientist (down from 136th in 2019), the 460th most popular biography from Canada (down from 452nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Canadian Computer Scientist.

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  • 44.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Rob Pike ranks 138 out of 201. Before him are Charles P. Thacker, Randy Pausch, Audrey Tang, Jaron Lanier, James Rumbaugh, and David Patterson. After him are Robert Tarjan, Richard Garriott, Kristen Nygaard, Bertrand Meyer, Steve Russell, and Martin Fowler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Rob Pike ranks 347. Before him are Didier Lockwood, Janet Hubert, Rina Mor, Natalya Andreychenko, Volker Zotz, and Yoshiko Tanaka. After him are Margarita Robles, John Debney, Gunter Pauli, Katrin Sass, Vera Glagoleva, and Ulrike Meyfarth.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Rob Pike ranks 460 out of 1,350. Before him are Guy Gavriel Kay (1954), Jack Kruschen (1922), Robert Pickton (1949), Colin Munro MacLeod (1909), Nancy Greene Raine (1943), and Robert H. MacArthur (1930). After him are George Orton (1873), Farley Mowat (1921), Rick Genest (1985), George Woodcock (1912), Mary Harron (1953), and George-Étienne Cartier (1814).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Canada

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

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