1948 - Today
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 196,783 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Scott Fahlman is the 105th most popular computer scientist (up from 119th in 2019), the 6,209th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,303rd in 2019) and the 65th most popular American Computer Scientist.
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Among computer scientists, Scott Fahlman ranks 105 out of 201. Before him are John Hopcroft, Jan Koum, Robert C. Martin, Betty Holberton, Evan Williams, and Peter Norton. After him are Robert Fano, Yann LeCun, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Kenneth E. Iverson, James H. Clark, and Michael Stonebraker.
1939 - Present
HPI: 47.85
Rank: 99
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
Among people born in 1948, Scott Fahlman ranks 382. Before him are Efraim Zuroff, Elias Khoury, Alex Ribeiro, Hans Moravec, Colleen Atwood, and Ivan Král. After him are Armando Calderón Sol, José Luis Capón, Bernd Stange, Ron Asheton, Paquito D'Rivera, and Mike Figgis.
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 376
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 377
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.35
Rank: 378
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.27
Rank: 379
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.27
Rank: 380
1948 - 2020
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 381
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 382
1948 - 2017
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 383
1948 - 2020
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 384
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 385
1948 - 2009
HPI: 46.95
Rank: 386
1948 - Present
HPI: 46.94
Rank: 387
1948 - Present
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 388
Among people born in United States, Scott Fahlman ranks 6,209 out of 18,182. Before him are Edward Hicks (1780), James Franciscus (1934), Marilyn French (1929), Estelle Taylor (1894), Lindy Remigino (1931), and Alice Hamilton (1869). After him are Mary Travers (1936), Frank Lubin (1910), Silas Weir Mitchell (1969), Norman Bel Geddes (1893), Chico Hamilton (1921), and Preston Sturges (1898).
1780 - 1849
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 6,203
1934 - 1991
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 6,204
1929 - 2009
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 6,205
1894 - 1958
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 6,206
1931 - 2018
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 6,207
1869 - 1970
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 6,208
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 6,209
1936 - 2009
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 6,210
1910 - 1999
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 6,211
1969 - Present
HPI: 47.19
Rank: 6,212
1893 - 1958
HPI: 47.19
Rank: 6,213
1921 - 2013
HPI: 47.19
Rank: 6,214
1898 - 1959
HPI: 47.19
Rank: 6,215
Among computer scientists born in United States, Scott Fahlman ranks 65. Before him are Eugene Garfield (1925), Edmund M. Clarke (1945), John Hopcroft (1939), Betty Holberton (1917), Evan Williams (1972), and Peter Norton (1943). After him are James H. Clark (1944), Michael Stonebraker (1943), Jean Bartik (1924), Adele Goldberg (1945), John L. Hennessy (1952), and Annie Easley (1933).
1925 - 2017
HPI: 48.47
Rank: 59
1945 - 2020
HPI: 48.04
Rank: 60
1939 - Present
HPI: 47.85
Rank: 61
1917 - 2001
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 62
1972 - Present
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 63
1943 - Present
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 64
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 65
1944 - Present
HPI: 46.88
Rank: 66
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.76
Rank: 67
1924 - 2011
HPI: 46.49
Rank: 68
1945 - Present
HPI: 46.42
Rank: 69
1952 - Present
HPI: 46.38
Rank: 70
1933 - 2011
HPI: 46.23
Rank: 71