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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Werner Koch

1961 - Today

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Werner Koch (born July 11, 1961) is a German free software developer. He is best known as the principal author of the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG). He was also Head of Office and German Vice-Chancellor of the Free Software Foundation Europe. He is the winner of Award for the Advancement of Free Software in 2015 for founding GnuPG.Journalists and security professionals rely on GnuPG, and Edward Snowden used it to evade monitoring whilst he leaked classified information from the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Werner Koch has received more than 61,292 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Werner Koch is the 186th most popular computer scientist (down from 178th in 2019), the 5,170th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,584th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Computer Scientist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Werner Koch ranks 186 out of 201. Before him are Phil Katz, Bassel Khartabil, Douglas Crockford, Luis von Ahn, Sophie Wilson, and Hans Reiser. After him are Chieko Asakawa, Craig Federighi, Christian Engström, Daphne Koller, Rodney Brooks, and Peter Norvig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Werner Koch ranks 578. Before him are Tim Meadows, Sebastiano Nela, John C. Baez, Violeta Bermúdez, The Godfather, and Ricki Herbert. After him are Maja Haderlap, David Thompson, Julie White, E. G. Daily, Agneta Andersson, and Derek Harper.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Werner Koch ranks 5,170 out of 6,142. Before him are Ömer Toprak (1989), Durs Grünbein (1962), Ulrich Borowka (1962), Gerhard Strack (1955), Julia Franck (1970), and Udo Kiessling (1955). After him are Nora Tschirner (1981), Pascal Wehrlein (1994), Patrick Owomoyela (1979), Petra Schersing (1965), Mark Forster (1983), and Florian Kohfeldt (1982).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Germany

Among computer scientists born in Germany, Werner Koch ranks 4. Before him are Joseph Weizenbaum (1923), Daniel Domscheit-Berg (1978), and Ian Murdock (1973). After him are Tron (1972).

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