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Kent Beck

1961 - Today

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Kent Beck (born 1961) is an American software engineer and the creator of extreme programming, a software development methodology that eschews rigid formal specification for a collaborative and iterative design process. Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto, the founding document for agile software development. Extreme and Agile methods are closely associated with Test-Driven Development (TDD), of which Beck is perhaps the leading proponent. Beck pioneered software design patterns, as well as the commercial application of Smalltalk. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Kent Beck is the 156th most popular computer scientist (down from 147th in 2024), the 9,487th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,737th in 2019) and the 89th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Kent Beck ranks 156 out of 245. Before him are Jaron Lanier, Kateryna Yushchenko, Shafi Goldwasser, Raj Reddy, Bertrand Meyer, and Hal Abelson. After him are Elizabeth J. Feinler, Annie Easley, Kathleen Booth, Needleman–Wunsch algorithm, Silvio Micali, and Henriette Avram.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Kent Beck ranks 379. Before him are Tonči Gabrić, Kim Jong Yang, Wally Pfister, Brit Pettersen, Curt Smith, and Lolita Davidovich. After him are Simone Young, Latifa, Aldo Costa, Howard Lutnick, Hasmik Papian, and Cui Jian.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kent Beck ranks 9,491 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Stangland (1881), David Koepp (1963), Robert E. Sherwood (1896), Nestor Serrano (1955), Charley Grapewin (1869), Michael Shermer (1954), Larry Linville (1939), and Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856). After him are Marsden Hartley (1877), Martha Rosler (1943), Elizabeth Cotten (1893), and Carmen Zapata (1927).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Kent Beck ranks 89. Before him are Phil Zimmermann (1954), Robert Tarjan (1948), John L. Hennessy (1952), Michael Stonebraker (1943), Jaron Lanier (1960), and Shafi Goldwasser (1958). After him are Elizabeth J. Feinler (1931), Annie Easley (1933), Henriette Avram (1919), James H. Clark (1944), Brewster Kahle (1960), and Edward F. Moore (1925).

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