1917 - 2016
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, Robert Fano ranks 106 out of 201. Before 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.
1976 - Present
HPI: 47.64
Rank: 100
1952 - Present
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 101
1917 - 2001
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 102
1972 - Present
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 103
1943 - Present
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 104
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 105
1917 - 2016
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 106
1960 - Present
HPI: 47.01
Rank: 107
1965 - Present
HPI: 46.99
Rank: 108
1920 - 2004
HPI: 46.92
Rank: 109
1944 - Present
HPI: 46.88
Rank: 110
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.76
Rank: 111
1935 - 2007
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 112
Among people born in 1917, Robert Fano ranks 212. Before 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 294. Before 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.
1917 - 2001
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 206
1917 - 2007
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 207
1917 - 1983
HPI: 47.25
Rank: 208
1917 - 2009
HPI: 47.22
Rank: 209
1917 - 2019
HPI: 47.15
Rank: 210
1917 - 2002
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 211
1917 - 2016
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 212
1917 - 2009
HPI: 47.03
Rank: 213
1917 - 1973
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 214
1917 - 1988
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 215
1917 - 1975
HPI: 46.96
Rank: 216
1917 - 2013
HPI: 46.79
Rank: 217
1917 - 2004
HPI: 46.79
Rank: 218
1931 - 2016
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 288
1925 - 2016
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 289
1928 - 2016
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 290
1926 - 2016
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 291
1928 - 2016
HPI: 47.12
Rank: 292
1924 - 2016
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 293
1917 - 2016
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 294
1942 - 2016
HPI: 47.00
Rank: 295
1933 - 2016
HPI: 47.00
Rank: 296
1934 - 2016
HPI: 46.99
Rank: 297
1932 - 2016
HPI: 46.99
Rank: 298
1957 - 2016
HPI: 46.92
Rank: 299
1922 - 2016
HPI: 46.88
Rank: 300
Among people born in Italy, Robert Fano ranks 3,289 out of 4,668. Before 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).
1925 - 2010
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 3,283
1922 - 2013
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 3,284
1910 - 1984
HPI: 47.06
Rank: 3,285
1916 - 2014
HPI: 47.06
Rank: 3,286
1934 - 2019
HPI: 47.06
Rank: 3,287
1978 - Present
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 3,288
1917 - 2016
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 3,289
1950 - Present
HPI: 47.03
Rank: 3,290
1817 - 1899
HPI: 47.03
Rank: 3,291
1941 - Present
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 3,292
1967 - Present
HPI: 47.01
Rank: 3,293
1947 - Present
HPI: 47.01
Rank: 3,294
650 - 642
HPI: 47.01
Rank: 3,295
Among computer scientists born in Italy, Robert Fano ranks 1. After him are Silvio Micali (1954).