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Steve Wilhite

1948 - 2022

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Stephen Earl Wilhite (March 3, 1948 – March 14, 2022) was an American computer scientist who worked at CompuServe and was the engineering lead on the team that created the GIF image file format in 1987. GIF went on to become the de facto standard for 8-bit color images on the Internet until PNG (1996) became a widely supported alternative. The format later became the subject of a patent assertion by Unisys on its use of the LZW compression algorithm. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steve Wilhite has received more than 338,080 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Steve Wilhite is the 220th most popular computer scientist, the 15,299th most popular biography from United States and the 116th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 340k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 35.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Steve Wilhite ranks 220 out of 245. Before him are Eric Allman, Tron, Dariusz Jemielniak, Phil Katz, Bram Cohen, and Demis Hassabis. After him are Ilya Sutskever, Bassel Khartabil, Mark Overmars, Shawn Fanning, Gottfrid Svartholm, and Ninoslav Marina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Steve Wilhite ranks 774. Before him are Dennis Waterman, Tom Udall, Robert J. Cenker, Tito Sotto, Raman Parimala, and Penelope Milford. After him are Trevor Cherry, Stephen Turnbull, Jack Dalrymple, Dan Gable, Earl Blumenauer, and Jeffrey Evans, 4th Baron Mountevans. Among people deceased in 2022, Steve Wilhite ranks 675. Before him are Kim Mi-soo, Brent Renaud, Javier Imbroda, Szilveszter Csollány, Jody Lukoki, and Albert Pobor. After him are Robbie Brightwell, Vitalii Skakun, Masato Kudo, Jerry Allison, Veronica Carlson, and Julie Powell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Steve Wilhite ranks 15,299 out of 20,380. Before him are Geraldine Brooks (1925), Biz Markie (1964), AZ (1972), Wendell R. Anderson (1933), Kenny Atkinson (1967), and Chris Smith (1953). After him are Danielle Rose Russell (1999), Joseph Taylor Robinson (1872), Jordan Ladd (1975), Robert Anderson (1917), Lee Thompson Young (1984), and Ted Strickland (1941).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Steve Wilhite ranks 116. Before him are Craig Federighi (1969), Nancy Lynch (1948), John Ousterhout (1954), Eric Allman (1955), Phil Katz (1962), and Bram Cohen (1975). After him are Shawn Fanning (1980), Danny Hillis (1956), Theodore Ts'o (1968), Katie Bouman (1989), David Karp (1986), and John Resig (1984).

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