COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Alan Cooper

1952 - Today

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Alan Cooper (born June 3, 1952) is an American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the "Father of Visual Basic", Cooper is also known for his books About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design and The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity. As founder of Cooper, a leading interaction design consultancy, he created the Goal-Directed design methodology and pioneered the use of personas as practical interaction design tools to create high-tech products. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alan Cooper is the 108th most popular computer scientist (up from 175th in 2019), the 6,172nd most popular biography from United States (up from 10,810th in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Alan Cooper ranks 108 out of 245. Before him are Alan Cox, Charles P. Thacker, Eric S. Raymond, Stephen Wolfram, John Draper, and Subhash Kak. After him are Manuel Blum, Robert W. Floyd, John Hopcroft, Jacques Vallée, Jan Koum, and Robert Fano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Alan Cooper ranks 319. Before him are Monika Zehrt, John D. Barrow, Johnny Thunders, Irina Allegrova, Mansour Ojjeh, and Vyacheslav Zaytsev. After him are Amina Wadud, Fernando Morena, Vitaly Churkin, Sefer Halilović, Ali Gomaa, and Ana Obregón.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Cooper ranks 6,173 out of 20,380. Before him are William Cohen (1940), Donovan Scott (1947), Henry Augustus Rowland (1848), Randy Meisner (1946), Haddon Sundblom (1899), and Marty Walsh (1967). After him are L. L. Langstroth (1810), Jenette Goldstein (1960), Cassandra Peterson (1951), Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (1886), Joe Exotic (1963), and Jack Kramer (1921).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Alan Cooper ranks 64. Before him are Stephen Cook (1939), Betty Holberton (1917), Marlyn Meltzer (1922), Ed Roberts (1941), Charles P. Thacker (1943), and Eric S. Raymond (1957). After him are Robert W. Floyd (1936), John Hopcroft (1939), Lynn Conway (1938), Danny Hillis (1956), Adele Goldberg (1945), and Eugene Garfield (1925).

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