COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Virgil Griffith

1983 - Today

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Virgil Griffith (born 1983) is an American programmer. He worked extensively on the Ethereum cryptocurrency platform, designed the Tor2web proxy along with Aaron Swartz, and created the Wikipedia indexing tool WikiScanner. He has published papers on artificial life and integrated information theory. Griffith was arrested in 2019 and in 2021 pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Virgil Griffith has received more than 271,323 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Virgil Griffith is the 242nd most popular computer scientist (down from 217th in 2019), the 18,865th most popular biography from United States (down from 17,705th in 2019) and the 124th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 270k

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  • 25.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Virgil Griffith ranks 242 out of 245. Before him are Denny Vrandečić, David Karp, John Resig, Dries Buytaert, Rosalind Picard, and Manindra Agrawal. After him are Ian Goodfellow, Jamie Zawinski, Blake Ross, Arfa Karim, and Coraline Ada Ehmke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1983, Virgil Griffith ranks 1,225. Before him are Joey Dorsey, Ike Diogu, Étienne Didot, James McFadden, Zhang Xiangxiang, and Éder Ceccon. After him are Serge Pauwels, Roberto Nurse, Luís Augusto Osório Romão, Astrid Guyart, Līga Dekmeijere, and Gianni Munari.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Virgil Griffith ranks 18,865 out of 20,380. Before him are Michael Cimino (1999), Kara Hayward (1998), Neilson Powless (1996), Otis Harris (1982), Jeremih (1987), and Madeleine Martin (1993). After him are Ashley Argota (1993), Bobby Portis (1995), Duncan Robinson (1994), Klete Keller (1982), Carli Lloyd (1989), and Cody Horn (1988).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Virgil Griffith ranks 124. Before him are Danny Hillis (1956), Theodore Ts'o (1968), Katie Bouman (1989), David Karp (1986), John Resig (1984), and Rosalind Picard (1962). After him are Ian Goodfellow (1987), Jamie Zawinski (1968), and Blake Ross (1985).

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