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Scott Fahlman

1948 - Today

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Scott Elliott Fahlman (born March 21, 1948) is an American computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute and Computer Science Department. He is notable for early work on automated planning and scheduling in a blocks world, on semantic networks, on neural networks (especially the cascade correlation algorithm), on the programming languages Dylan, and Common Lisp (especially CMU Common Lisp), and he was one of the founders of Lucid Inc. During the period when it was standardized, he was recognized as "the leader of Common Lisp." From 2006 to 2015, Fahlman was engaged in developing a knowledge base named Scone, based in part on his thesis work on the NETL Semantic Network. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Scott Fahlman has received more than 214,995 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Scott Fahlman is the 114th most popular computer scientist (down from 105th in 2019), the 6,106th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,196th in 2019) and the 67th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Scott Fahlman ranks 114 out of 245. Before him are Eugene Kaspersky, John Hopcroft, Robert Taylor, David A. Huffman, Liu Gang, and Rasmus Lerdorf. After him are Peter Norton, Kenneth E. Iverson, Kateryna Yushchenko, Lynn Conway, Shafi Goldwasser, and Robert Fano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Scott Fahlman ranks 396. Before him are Rainer Zobel, Ratko Rudić, Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov, Leo Makkonen, Martin Suter, and Jan Graubner. After him are Sandra Brown, Toninho, Uschi Digard, Natalya Gundareva, Chris Mulkey, and Lyudmila Karachkina.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Scott Fahlman ranks 6,106 out of 20,380. Before him are Randy Williams (1953), Gina Raimondo (1971), Thomas S. Monson (1927), Scott Patterson (1958), Barry Newman (1938), and George Eads (1967). After him are Michael Paré (1958), Jack Oakie (1903), John Baldessari (1931), Sarah Shahi (1980), Timbaland (1972), and Meg Tilly (1960).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Scott Fahlman ranks 67. Before him are Anita Borg (1949), Adele Goldberg (1945), Robert W. Floyd (1936), John Hopcroft (1939), Robert Taylor (1932), and David A. Huffman (1925). After him are Peter Norton (1943), Lynn Conway (1938), Shafi Goldwasser (1958), Jack Dongarra (1950), Arthur Samuel (1901), and Bill Joy (1954).

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