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Jaron Lanier

1960 - Today

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Jaron Zepel Lanier (, born May 3, 1960) is an American computer scientist, visual artist, computer philosophy writer, technologist, futurist, and composer of contemporary classical music. Considered a founder of the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and wired gloves. In the late 1990s, Lanier worked on applications for Internet2, and in the 2000s, he was a visiting scholar at Silicon Graphics and various universities. In 2006 he began to work at Microsoft, and from 2009 has worked at Microsoft Research as an Interdisciplinary Scientist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jaron Lanier is the 150th most popular computer scientist (down from 138th in 2019), the 8,483rd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,665th in 2019) and the 87th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Jaron Lanier ranks 150 out of 245. Before him are Adam Osborne, Jack Dorsey, Phil Zimmermann, Robert Tarjan, John L. Hennessy, and Michael Stonebraker. After him are Kateryna Yushchenko, Shafi Goldwasser, Raj Reddy, Bertrand Meyer, Hal Abelson, and Kent Beck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Jaron Lanier ranks 328. Before him are Jozef Chovanec, Beata Poźniak, Delio Rossi, Jorge Quiroga, Eike Immel, and Joe Ranft. After him are Plamen Oresharski, Youth, Zoran Živković, Robert John Burke, Ivan Gudelj, and Rachel Portman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jaron Lanier ranks 8,485 out of 20,380. Before him are Joe Ranft (1960), Jeffrey Combs (1954), Richard Hell (1949), Ginny Duenkel (1947), Norman Mineta (1931), and Heather Langenkamp (1964). After him are Alison Eastwood (1972), M. King Hubbert (1903), Neville Brand (1920), Kathryn Hahn (1974), James Franciscus (1934), and Elmer Rice (1892).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Jaron Lanier ranks 87. Before him are James Rumbaugh (1947), Jack Dorsey (1976), Phil Zimmermann (1954), Robert Tarjan (1948), John L. Hennessy (1952), and Michael Stonebraker (1943). After him are Shafi Goldwasser (1958), Kent Beck (1961), Elizabeth J. Feinler (1931), Annie Easley (1933), Henriette Avram (1919), and James H. Clark (1944).

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