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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Robert W. Floyd

1936 - 2001

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Robert W Floyd (June 8, 1936 – September 25, 2001) was a computer scientist. His contributions include the design of the Floyd–Warshall algorithm (independently of Stephen Warshall), which efficiently finds all shortest paths in a graph and his work on parsing; Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm for detecting cycles in a sequence was attributed to him as well. In one isolated paper he introduced the important concept of error diffusion for rendering images, also called Floyd–Steinberg dithering (though he distinguished dithering from diffusion). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert W. Floyd has received more than 176,518 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Robert W. Floyd is the 90th most popular computer scientist (down from 61st in 2019), the 5,176th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,163rd in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Robert W. Floyd ranks 90 out of 201. Before him are Adi Shamir, Eric S. Raymond, Richard M. Karp, Liviu Librescu, Ruth Teitelbaum, and Eugene Kaspersky. After him are Robert Taylor, Stephen Wolfram, Marlyn Meltzer, Radia Perlman, Joseph Sifakis, and Eugene Garfield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Robert W. Floyd ranks 288. Before him are Saburō Kawabuchi, Frederick Ballantyne, James Harrison, Brian Blessed, Kigeli V of Rwanda, and Susana Duijm. After him are Michał Heller, Scott LaFaro, Gwyneth Jones, Birthe Wilke, Victor Lanoux, and Carl Icahn. Among people deceased in 2001, Robert W. Floyd ranks 167. Before him are Bernard Heuvelmans, Mordecai Richler, Gordon R. Dickson, Javier Urruticoechea, Eileen Heckart, and Ardito Desio. After him are Trịnh Công Sơn, Philippe Léotard, Jan Kott, Luis Rijo, Don Bradman, and Maria Gorokhovskaya.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert W. Floyd ranks 5,176 out of 18,182. Before him are Katherine Kelly Lang (1961), William Henry Conley (1840), Edward Stettinius Jr. (1900), Phil Anselmo (1968), Ed Begley (1901), and Donny Hathaway (1945). After him are Rusty Schweickart (1935), Linda Cardellini (1975), William D. Coolidge (1873), Ralph Kirkpatrick (1911), Willard Scott (1934), and Ron Woodroof (1950).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Robert W. Floyd ranks 55. Before him are Edward Feigenbaum (1936), David A. Huffman (1925), Evelyn Berezin (1925), Eric S. Raymond (1957), Richard M. Karp (1935), and Ruth Teitelbaum (1924). After him are Robert Taylor (1932), Marlyn Meltzer (1922), Radia Perlman (1951), Eugene Garfield (1925), Edmund M. Clarke (1945), and John Hopcroft (1939).

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