COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Vint Cerf

1943 - Today

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Vinton Gray Cerf (; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Bob Kahn. He has received honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Marconi Prize, and membership in the National Academy of Engineering. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vint Cerf has received more than 2,629,667 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Vint Cerf is the 21st most popular computer scientist (down from 15th in 2019), the 1,562nd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,114th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Vint Cerf is most famous for being one of the co-creators of the TCP and IP protocols, which form the foundation of the internet.

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  • 2.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Vint Cerf ranks 21 out of 245. Before him are Ivan Sutherland, George Dantzig, Ray Kurzweil, John Backus, Ken Thompson, and Dorothy Vaughan. After him are Guido van Rossum, Alan Kay, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Peter Naur, and Kevin Mitnick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Vint Cerf ranks 108. Before him are Ulay, Mustafa Dzhemilev, Thomas J. Sargent, Finn E. Kydland, Eric Idle, and Otoya Yamaguchi. After him are Holland Taylor, Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh, Chevy Chase, Chris Amon, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, and Richard Smalley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Vint Cerf ranks 1,562 out of 20,380. Before him are Michael Dudikoff (1954), Jordan Belfort (1962), Eleanor H. Porter (1868), Chris Cooper (1951), Burt Bacharach (1928), and Ken Kesey (1935). After him are Louis Ignarro (1941), Peter Agre (1949), Holland Taylor (1943), Joseph L. Goldstein (1940), Peter Dinklage (1969), and Paul Revere (1735).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Vint Cerf ranks 14. Before him are Ivan Sutherland (1938), George Dantzig (1914), Ray Kurzweil (1948), John Backus (1924), Ken Thompson (1943), and Dorothy Vaughan (1910). After him are Alan Kay (1940), Larry Page (1973), Kevin Mitnick (1963), Ward Cunningham (1949), Barbara Liskov (1939), and Allen Newell (1927).

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