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Yukihiro Matsumoto

1965 - Today

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Yukihiro Matsumoto (まつもとゆきひろ, Matsumoto Yukihiro; born 14 April 1965), also known as Matz, is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language and its original reference implementation, Matz's Ruby Interpreter (MRI). As of 2011, Matsumoto is the Chief Architect of Ruby at Heroku, an online cloud platform-as-a-service in San Francisco. He is a fellow of the Rakuten Institute of Technology, a research and development organization within Rakuten Group, Inc. He was appointed to the role of technical advisor for VASILY, Inc. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yukihiro Matsumoto is the 141st most popular computer scientist (down from 136th in 2019), the 1,433rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,335th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Yukihiro Matsumoto ranks 141 out of 245. Before him are Jack Dongarra, Andy Rubin, Paul G. Comba, Anita Borg, Vitalik Buterin, and James Rumbaugh. After him are Rudolf Bayer, Demis Hassabis, Adam Osborne, Jack Dorsey, Phil Zimmermann, and Robert Tarjan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Yukihiro Matsumoto ranks 273. Before him are Gustavo Quinteros, Mia Mottley, Piers Morgan, Ted Raimi, Karl Logan, and Lennie James. After him are Michael Skibbe, Kiril Metkov, Bernard Hopkins, Rob Pilatus, Karim Massimov, and Tomas Alfredson.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yukihiro Matsumoto ranks 1,433 out of 6,245. Before him are Yu Suzuki (1958), Takeshi Koshida (1960), Mami Kaneda (1968), Akira Ishida (1967), Kei Sugimoto (1982), and Tamlyn Tomita (1966). After him are Okuro Oikawa (1896), Atsushi Sakurai (1966), Jiro Sato (1908), Daichi Fukushima (1977), Ryo Kawasaki (1947), and Hiroshi Kaneda (1953).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Japan

Among computer scientists born in Japan, Yukihiro Matsumoto ranks 3. Before him are Satoshi Nakamoto (1975), and Ken Kutaragi (1950). After him are Chieko Asakawa (1958).

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