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John Ousterhout

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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 different languages on Wikipedia. John Ousterhout is the 224th most popular computer scientist (down from 213th in 2019), the 15,584th most popular biography from United States (down from 14,559th in 2019) and the 118th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, John Ousterhout ranks 224 out of 245Before him are Eric Allman, Nancy Lynch, Douglas Crockford, Steve Wilhite, Werner Koch, and Gottfrid Svartholm. After him are Tron, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Shawn Fanning, Mihalis Yannakakis, Mark Overmars, and Dariusz Jemielniak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, John Ousterhout ranks 717Before 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 15,591 out of 20,380Before 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).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, John Ousterhout ranks 118Before him are Phil Katz (1962), Bram Cohen (1975), Eric Allman (1955), Nancy Lynch (1948), Douglas Crockford (1955), and Steve Wilhite (1948). After him are Shawn Fanning (1980), Theodore Ts'o (1968), Rosalind Picard (1962), John Resig (1984), Jamie Zawinski (1968), and Ian Goodfellow (1987).