1956 - Today
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 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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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.
1943 - 2017
HPI: 44.37
Rank: 132
1960 - 2008
HPI: 44.33
Rank: 133
1981 - Present
HPI: 44.27
Rank: 134
1960 - Present
HPI: 44.26
Rank: 135
1947 - Present
HPI: 44.21
Rank: 136
1947 - Present
HPI: 44.11
Rank: 137
1956 - Present
HPI: 44.11
Rank: 138
1948 - Present
HPI: 44.10
Rank: 139
1961 - Present
HPI: 44.06
Rank: 140
1926 - 2002
HPI: 44.01
Rank: 141
1950 - Present
HPI: 43.83
Rank: 142
1937 - Present
HPI: 43.79
Rank: 143
1963 - Present
HPI: 43.78
Rank: 144
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.
1956 - 2018
HPI: 44.31
Rank: 341
1956 - Present
HPI: 44.21
Rank: 342
1956 - Present
HPI: 44.20
Rank: 343
1956 - Present
HPI: 44.18
Rank: 344
1956 - Present
HPI: 44.16
Rank: 345
1956 - 2011
HPI: 44.14
Rank: 346
1956 - Present
HPI: 44.11
Rank: 347
1956 - Present
HPI: 44.06
Rank: 348
1956 - Present
HPI: 44.00
Rank: 349
1956 - Present
HPI: 44.00
Rank: 350
1956 - Present
HPI: 43.99
Rank: 351
1956 - 2017
HPI: 43.97
Rank: 352
1956 - Present
HPI: 43.94
Rank: 353
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).
1954 - Present
HPI: 44.26
Rank: 454
1922 - 2002
HPI: 44.26
Rank: 455
1949 - Present
HPI: 44.21
Rank: 456
1909 - 1972
HPI: 44.18
Rank: 457
1943 - Present
HPI: 44.16
Rank: 458
1930 - 1972
HPI: 44.15
Rank: 459
1956 - Present
HPI: 44.11
Rank: 460
1873 - 1958
HPI: 44.11
Rank: 461
1921 - 2014
HPI: 44.01
Rank: 462
1985 - 2018
HPI: 43.93
Rank: 463
1912 - 1995
HPI: 43.93
Rank: 464
1953 - Present
HPI: 43.92
Rank: 465
1814 - 1873
HPI: 43.92
Rank: 466
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).
1942 - Present
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 1
1955 - Present
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 2
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 3
1943 - Present
HPI: 50.78
Rank: 4
1920 - 2004
HPI: 46.92
Rank: 5
1956 - Present
HPI: 44.11
Rank: 6
1951 - Present
HPI: 29.81
Rank: 7