63.2% of matchups won
380 matchups
Elo 1553
tracked 2025/05/25 → 2026/04/25
mission: Advance technology for humanity · Technology and futurism · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing66%
picked as helping wellbeing
332 matchups
44%
picked as hurting wellbeing
48 matchups
On balance people see it as helping.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
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Known for
- National Medal of Technology
- Grace Murray Hopper Award
- 21 Honorary Doctorates
- First Omni-font OCR
- Kurzweil Reading Machine
Based on 380 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/04/25. Full rankings ·
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