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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Robert Taylor

1932 - 2017

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Robert William Taylor (February 10, 1932 – April 13, 2017), known as Bob Taylor, was an American Internet pioneer, who led teams that made major contributions to the personal computer, and other related technologies. He was director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office from 1965 through 1969, founder and later manager of Xerox PARC's Computer Science Laboratory from 1970 through 1983, and founder and manager of Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center until 1996.Uniquely, Taylor had no formal academic training or research experience in computer science; Severo Ornstein likened Taylor to a "concert pianist without fingers", a perception reaffirmed by historian Leslie Berlin: "Taylor could hear a faint melody in the distance, but he could not play it himself. He knew whether to move up or down the scale to approximate the sound, he could recognize when a note was wrong, but he needed someone else to make the music."His awards include the National Medal of Technology and Innovation and the Draper Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Taylor has received more than 169,088 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Taylor is the 91st most popular computer scientist (down from 87th in 2019), the 5,220th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,364th in 2019) and the 56th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 170k

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  • 48.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Robert Taylor ranks 91 out of 201Before him are Eric S. Raymond, Richard M. Karp, Liviu Librescu, Ruth Teitelbaum, Eugene Kaspersky, and Robert W. Floyd. After him are Stephen Wolfram, Marlyn Meltzer, Radia Perlman, Joseph Sifakis, Eugene Garfield, and Manuel Blum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Robert Taylor ranks 254Before him are Dabney Coleman, László Sárosi, Lajos Csordás, Antonio Roma, Paulinho de Almeida, and Edward O. Thorp. After him are Richard Estes, Katherine Paterson, Paul R. Ehrlich, Edgar Reitz, Quentin Blake, and Chavalit Yongchaiyudh. Among people deceased in 2017, Robert Taylor ranks 262Before him are Nicky Hayden, Teresa Ann Savoy, Paula Fox, Alois Mock, Vitaly Churkin, and Jaki Liebezeit. After him are Barry Dennen, Victor Lanoux, Timo Mäkinen, Angry Grandpa, Darlene Cates, and Ludvig Faddeev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Taylor ranks 5,220 out of 18,182Before him are Roscoe Tanner (1951), Tammy Wynette (1942), Nathan Lane (1956), Ted Neeley (1943), Frank Churchill (1901), and Nathanael West (1903). After him are Barnum Brown (1873), Moe Tucker (1944), George Pickett (1825), Paul W. Merrill (1887), Nathan East (1955), and T. C. Boyle (1948).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Robert Taylor ranks 56Before him are David A. Huffman (1925), Evelyn Berezin (1925), Eric S. Raymond (1957), Richard M. Karp (1935), Ruth Teitelbaum (1924), and Robert W. Floyd (1936). After him are Marlyn Meltzer (1922), Radia Perlman (1951), Eugene Garfield (1925), Edmund M. Clarke (1945), John Hopcroft (1939), and Betty Holberton (1917).