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Ed Roberts

1941 - 2010

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Henry Edward Roberts (September 13, 1941 – April 1, 2010) was an American engineer, entrepreneur and medical doctor who invented the first commercially successful microcomputer in 1974. He is most often known as "the father of the personal computer." Roberts founded Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) in 1970 to sell electronics kits to model rocketry hobbyists, but the first successful product was an electronic calculator kit that was featured on the cover of the November 1971 issue of Popular Electronics. The calculators were very successful and sales topped one million dollars in 1973. A brutal calculator price war left the company deeply in debt by 1974. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ed Roberts is the 100th most popular computer scientist (down from 99th in 2019), the 5,625th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,456th in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Ed Roberts ranks 100 out of 245. Before him are Gary Kildall, Stephen Cook, Kathleen Antonelli, Betty Holberton, Judea Pearl, and Marlyn Meltzer. After him are Robin Milner, Alan Cox, Charles P. Thacker, Eric S. Raymond, Stephen Wolfram, and John Draper.

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Among people born in 1941, Ed Roberts ranks 321. Before him are Ricardo Piglia, Albert Shesternyov, Chieko Baisho, Nate Thurmond, Signe Toly Anderson, and Rintaro. After him are Ryuichi Sugiyama, Paul Kantner, Arie den Hartog, Laura Mulvey, Steve Cropper, and Robert Keohane. Among people deceased in 2010, Ed Roberts ranks 217. Before him are Marcel Domingo, Pavel Lednyov, Sinan Hasani, José Ramos Delgado, Valentina Tolkunova, and Marina Semyonova. After him are Kenneth Noland, Robin Milner, Vitaly Sevastyanov, Alex Higgins, Laurent Terzieff, and Hank Jones.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ed Roberts ranks 5,625 out of 20,380. Before him are Alfred P. Sloan (1875), Karen Nyberg (1969), Nelson A. Miles (1839), A. C. Green (1963), Lysander Spooner (1808), and Tom Mix (1880). After him are Donnie Wahlberg (1969), James Edward Keeler (1857), JJ Redick (1984), Justin Theroux (1971), Valerie Thomas (1943), and Paul Kantner (1941).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Ed Roberts ranks 61. Before him are Evan Williams (1972), Edward Feigenbaum (1936), Gary Kildall (1942), Stephen Cook (1939), Betty Holberton (1917), and Marlyn Meltzer (1922). After him are Charles P. Thacker (1943), Eric S. Raymond (1957), Alan Cooper (1952), Robert W. Floyd (1936), John Hopcroft (1939), and Lynn Conway (1938).

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