COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Yukihiro Matsumoto

1965 - Today

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Yukihiro Matsumoto (まつもとゆきひろ, Matsumoto Yukihiro, born 14 April 1965), also known as Matz, is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language and its original reference implementation, Matz's Ruby Interpreter (MRI). His demeanor has brought about a motto in the Ruby community: "Matz is nice and so we are nice," commonly abbreviated as MINASWAN. As of 2011, Matsumoto is the Chief Architect of Ruby at Heroku, an online cloud platform-as-a-service in San Francisco. He is a fellow of the Rakuten Institute of Technology, a research and development organization within Rakuten Group, Inc. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yukihiro Matsumoto has received more than 660,902 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Yukihiro Matsumoto is the 136th most popular computer scientist (down from 108th in 2019), the 1,335th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,141st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Computer Scientist.

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  • 54.01

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Yukihiro Matsumoto ranks 136 out of 245. Before him are Jack Dorsey, Sudha Murty, James Rumbaugh, Needleman–Wunsch algorithm, Annie Easley, and Michael Stonebraker. After him are Robert Tarjan, Jaron Lanier, Silvio Micali, Subhash Kak, Robert Tappan Morris, and Thomas E. Kurtz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Yukihiro Matsumoto ranks 247. Before him are Thomas Helmer, Beth Gibbons, Toshi, Karl Logan, Jonathan Glazer, and Carlos Mayor. After him are Santiago Segura, Veronica Ferres, Guenther Steiner, Bernard Hopkins, Paige Turco, and Bernardo Fernandes da Silva.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yukihiro Matsumoto ranks 1,335 out of 6,245. Before him are Jiro Sato (1908), Fumio Gotō (1884), Noboru Terada (1917), Kazuhiko Nishijima (1926), Keiko Awaji (1933), and Kaori Momoi (1951). After him are Mana (1969), Masaharu Fukuyama (1969), Hiroshi Kaneda (1953), Takekazu Asaka (1952), Kiyonori Kikutake (1928), and Masae Suzuki (1957).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Japan

Among computer scientists born in Japan, Yukihiro Matsumoto ranks 3. Before him are Satoshi Nakamoto (1975), and Ken Kutaragi (1950). After him are Chieko Asakawa (1958).

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