COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Robert Fano

1917 - 2016

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Roberto Mario "Robert" Fano (11 November 1917 – 13 July 2016) was an Italian-American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Fano has received more than 95,115 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Robert Fano is the 120th most popular computer scientist (down from 106th in 2019), the 3,547th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,279th in 2019) and the most popular Italian Computer Scientist.

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  • 95k

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  • 48.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Robert Fano ranks 120 out of 245. Before him are Scott Fahlman, Peter Norton, Kenneth E. Iverson, Kateryna Yushchenko, Lynn Conway, and Shafi Goldwasser. After him are Bram Moolenaar, Robert C. Martin, Jack Dongarra, Arthur Samuel, Bill Joy, and Andy Rubin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Robert Fano ranks 237. Before him are Sidney Nolan, Fyodor Khitruk, Robert Lowell, Ramanand Sagar, James Donald, and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.. After him are Ibrahim Shams, Madeleine Robinson, Joseph Wresinski, James Jesus Angleton, John Berry, and Dmitry Polyansky. Among people deceased in 2016, Robert Fano ranks 317. Before him are Charmian Carr, Valery Khalilov, Néstor Gonçalves, Mother Angelica, Lasse Mårtenson, and Martin Lundström. After him are Anatoly Roshchin, Lutz D. Schmadel, Rudy Van Gelder, Heinrich Schiff, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Amelia Bence.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Robert Fano ranks 3,547 out of 5,161. Before him are Luciano Floridi (1964), Massimo Pallottino (1909), Giuseppe Caprio (1914), Enzo Sacchi (1926), Giuseppe Asclepi (1706), and Benito Lorenzi (1925). After him are Fiorella Mannoia (1954), Daniele Orsato (1975), Learco Guerra (1902), Dario Mangiarotti (1915), Franco Albini (1905), and Giancarlo Brusati (1910).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Italy

Among computer scientists born in Italy, Robert Fano ranks 1. After him are Silvio Micali (1954).

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