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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

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 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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  • 200k

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  • 47.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Scott Fahlman ranks 105 out of 201Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Scott Fahlman ranks 382Before 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.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Scott Fahlman ranks 6,209 out of 18,182Before 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).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Scott Fahlman ranks 65Before 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).