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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 88,841 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Robert Fano is the 106th most popular computer scientist (up from 112th in 2019), the 3,289th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,183rd in 2019) and the most popular Italian Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Robert Fano ranks 106 out of 201Before him are Jan Koum, Robert C. Martin, Betty Holberton, Evan Williams, Peter Norton, and Scott Fahlman. After him are Yann LeCun, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Kenneth E. Iverson, James H. Clark, Michael Stonebraker, and Karen Spärck Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Robert Fano ranks 212Before him are Betty Holberton, Ernesto Alonso, José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, Torsten Lindberg, Babiker Awadalla, and Vernon A. Walters. After him are Helen Suzman, Jane Bowles, Joseph Wresinski, Victor Marijnen, José Luis Sampedro, and Bagrat Shinkuba. Among people deceased in 2016, Robert Fano ranks 294Before him are Hanoi Hannah, Anne Jackson, William Trevor, Ali Javan, Pierre Tchernia, and Ruth Leuwerik. After him are Lutz D. Schmadel, Jiří Tichý, Rita Renoir, Pauline Oliveros, Abu Ali al-Anbari, and Alfred G. Knudson.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Robert Fano ranks 3,289 out of 4,668Before him are Carla Del Poggio (1925), Lorenzo Antonetti (1922), Aldo Donati (1910), Arnoldo Foà (1916), Paolo Sardi (1934), and Virginia Raggi (1978). After him are Antonio Di Pietro (1950), Serafino Dubois (1817), Franco Nones (1941), Simone Moro (1967), Giuseppe Betori (1947), and Aiulf I of Benevento (650).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Italy

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