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Scott Fahlman

1948 - Today

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Scott Elliott Fahlman (born March 21, 1948) is an American computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute and Computer Science Department. He is notable for early work on automated planning and scheduling in a blocks world, on semantic networks, on neural networks (especially the cascade correlation algorithm), on the programming languages Dylan, and Common Lisp (especially CMU Common Lisp), and he was one of the founders of Lucid Inc. During the period when it was standardized, he was recognized as "the leader of Common Lisp." From 2006 to 2015, Fahlman was engaged in developing a knowledge base named Scone, based in part on his thesis work on the NETL Semantic Network. He also is credited with coining the use of the emoticon. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Scott Fahlman is the 184th most popular computer scientist (down from 114th in 2019), the 11,696th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,105th in 2019) and the 103rd most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Scott Fahlman ranks 184 out of 245. Before him are David Karp, Peter Shor, Jean E. Sammet, Michael Dertouzos, Richard Garriott, and Rob Pike. After him are Grady Booch, Dave Cutler, Tim Paterson, Robert Tappan Morris, Geir Ivarsøy, and Sugata Mitra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Scott Fahlman ranks 683. Before him are Sheila Jeffreys, Edward Lachman, Josef Bierbichler, Borivoje Đorđević, Mao Chi-kuo, and Tsai Chih-chung. After him are Jim Byrnes, Gerrit Graham, El Kazovsky, Pedro Morenés, Betty Thomas, and S. E. Hinton.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Scott Fahlman ranks 11,698 out of 20,380. Before him are David Gates (1940), Louise Ritter (1958), Betsy DeVos (1958), Lamar Hunt (1932), David Darling (1941), and Ellen Glasgow (1873). After him are George Alec Effinger (1947), Bob Kulick (1950), Lucy Shapiro (1940), Sonny Fortune (1939), Grady Booch (1955), and Dinah Manoff (1956).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Scott Fahlman ranks 103. Before him are Andy Hertzfeld (1953), Bruce Schneier (1963), Katie Bouman (1989), David Karp (1986), Peter Shor (1959), and Jean E. Sammet (1928). After him are Grady Booch (1955), Dave Cutler (1942), Robert Tappan Morris (1965), Brian Acton (1972), Ralph Merkle (1952), and Jon Hall (1950).

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