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John Ousterhout

1954 - Today

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John Kenneth Ousterhout (, born October 15, 1954) is an American computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming. Ousterhout was previously a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley, where he created the Tcl scripting language and the Tk platform-independent widget toolkit, and proposed the idea of coscheduling. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). John Ousterhout is the 226th most popular computer scientist (down from 213th in 2024), the 15,697th most popular biography from United States (down from 14,555th in 2019) and the 119th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, John Ousterhout ranks 226 out of 245. Before him are Nancy Lynch, Douglas Crockford, Steve Wilhite, Werner Koch, Gottfrid Svartholm, and Vincent Rijmen. After him are Tron, David Jones, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Shawn Fanning, Mihalis Yannakakis, and Mark Overmars.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, John Ousterhout ranks 717. Before him are Moon Moon Sen, Mitch Kupchak, Greg Ginn, Phil Bryant, Mudashiru Lawal, and Ravi Shankar Prasad. After him are Mike Rounds, Aleksandr Tarkhanov, Ken MacLeod, Ted Jensen, John O'Hurley, and Jimmy Case.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Ousterhout ranks 15,704 out of 20,380. Before him are Daniella Pineda (1987), Ever Anderson (2007), Kevin Willis (1962), Angela Goethals (1977), Martín López-Zubero (1969), and Tommy Dreamer (1971). After him are E. Elias Merhige (1964), Martina McBride (1966), Madelyn Cline (1997), Jimmie Wilson (1950), Cosma Shiva Hagen (1981), and Xolo Maridueña (2001).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, John Ousterhout ranks 119. Before him are Bram Cohen (1975), Terry A. Davis (1969), Eric Allman (1955), Nancy Lynch (1948), Douglas Crockford (1955), and Steve Wilhite (1948). After him are Shawn Fanning (1980), Greg Kroah-Hartman (null), Theodore Ts'o (1968), Jeff Dean (1968), Rosalind Picard (1962), and Rich Skrenta (1967).

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