COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Rodney Brooks

1954 - Today

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Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954) is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics. He was a Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rodney Brooks has received more than 377,425 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Rodney Brooks is the 203rd most popular computer scientist (down from 191st in 2019), the 471st most popular biography from Australia (down from 435th in 2019) and the most popular Australian Computer Scientist.

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  • 380k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Rodney Brooks ranks 203 out of 245. Before him are Gilles Brassard, Alexandra Elbakyan, Daphne Koller, Martin Odersky, Theo de Raadt, and Peter Norvig. After him are Paul Buchheit, Christian Engström, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Maria Klawe, Craig Federighi, and Nancy Lynch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Rodney Brooks ranks 651. Before him are Manohar Lal Khattar, Lindiwe Sisulu, Phil Thompson, Iain Duncan Smith, Jeffrey Ashby, and Jill Abramson. After him are Ravi Shankar Prasad, Andrea Gyarmati, Robert W. McElroy, Arturo Rodas, James Gleick, and Sammy McIlroy.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Rodney Brooks ranks 471 out of 1,143. Before him are Shaun Tan (1974), DBC Pierre (1961), Mary Augusta Ward (1851), Ernest Chapman (1926), Mervyn Wood (1917), and Louis Mandylor (1966). After him are Lorraine Crapp (1938), Edith Cowan (1861), Shane Warne (1969), Les Murray (1938), Suzanne Cory (1942), and June Maston (1928).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Australia

Among computer scientists born in Australia, Rodney Brooks ranks 1. 

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