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Tron

1972 - 1998

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Boris Floricic (8 June 1972 – 17 October 1998), better known by his pseudonym Tron, was a German hacker and phreaker whose death in unclear circumstances has led to various conspiracy theories. He is also known for his Diplom thesis presenting one of the first public implementations of a telephone with built-in voice encryption, the "Cryptophon". Floricic's pseudonym was a reference to the eponymous character in the 1982 Disney film Tron. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tron has received more than 5,713,018 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Tron is the 215th most popular computer scientist (down from 196th in 2019), the 6,123rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,283rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Computer Scientist.

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  • 36.80

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Tron ranks 215 out of 245. Before him are Nancy Lynch, Fei-Fei Li, Stuart J. Russell, Werner Koch, John Ousterhout, and Eric Allman. After him are Dariusz Jemielniak, Phil Katz, Bram Cohen, Demis Hassabis, Steve Wilhite, and Ilya Sutskever.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Tron ranks 656. Before him are Alexandra Timoshenko, Žigmund Pálffy, Zoltan Sabo, Linus Sandgren, Davit Bakradze, and Alioum Boukar. After him are Florian Gallenberger, Tamaki Uchiyama, Hidemaro Fujibayashi, Muriel Baumeister, Léon van Bon, and Lisa Martinek. Among people deceased in 1998, Tron ranks 332. Before him are Eddie Rabbitt, Syd Owen, Peter Sillett, Junkyard Dog, Keith Newton, and Matthew Shepard. After him are Irene Hervey, Barbara Acklin, Ram Swarup, Tony Shelly, Lawton Chiles, and Rodney Harvey.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Tron ranks 6,123 out of 7,253. Before him are Volker Wissing (1970), David Raum (1998), Masashi Hamauzu (1971), Steffi Martin (1962), Marco Werner (1966), and Marius Wolf (1995). After him are Stefan Kretzschmar (1973), Gloria Siebert (1964), Florian Gallenberger (1972), Hermann Gröhe (1961), Pascal Wehrlein (1994), and Lars Klingbeil (1978).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Germany

Among computer scientists born in Germany, Tron ranks 6. Before him are Joseph Weizenbaum (1923), Rudolf Bayer (1939), Ian Murdock (1973), Daniel Domscheit-Berg (1978), and Werner Koch (1961). After him are Denny Vrandečić (1978), and Coraline Ada Ehmke (2000).

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