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1TD

Theresa Dobbs

9.8/10 · 31 community ratings

1715Some ratings

2ES

Eric Snodgrass

9.6/10 · 158 community ratings

1704High confidence

3VK

Viraj Kumar

9.8/10 · 33 community ratings

1698Some ratings

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4WFWade Fagen74 community ratingsSome ratings1665—93%

5JKJames Kaler28 community ratingsSome ratings1664—100%

6JEJeff Erickson37 community ratingsSome ratings1656—80%

7EMEsmail Meisami26 community ratingsSome ratings1648——

8PBPhilip Brighten Godfrey9 community ratingsFew ratings1646—80%

9MVMahesh Viswanathan23 community ratingsFew ratings1645—100%

10WCWilliam Chapman33 community ratingsSome ratings1641—100%

11LALawrence Angrave117 community ratingsHigh confidence1637—93%

12BSBill Simmons11 community ratingsFew ratings1621——

13BFBruce Fouke10 community ratingsFew ratings1618——

14JSJule Schatz6 community ratingsFew ratings1615—100%

15CCChandra Chekuri12 community ratingsFew ratings1613—90%

16DHDerek Hoiem12 community ratingsFew ratings1613—100%

17MNMark Nelson10 community ratingsFew ratings1606—100%

18RCRyan Cunningham12 community ratingsFew ratings1589—75%

19DFDavid Forsyth10 community ratingsFew ratings1584—80%

20DDDanny Dig12 community ratingsFew ratings1577—100%

21GMGreg McFarquhar8 community ratingsFew ratings1577—100%

22ADAmanda Dooley8 community ratingsFew ratings1577——

23NDNeal Davis25 community ratingsSome ratings1576—72%

24MCMatthew Caesar21 community ratingsFew ratings1574—69%

25SLSteve Lavalle7 community ratingsFew ratings1573——

26HZHan Zhao10 community ratingsFew ratings1572—82%

27LOLuke Olson10 community ratingsFew ratings1572—80%

28AAAbdussalam Alawini96 community ratingsSome ratings1571—69%

29VAVikram Adve4 community ratingsFew ratings1571—100%

30ESEdgar Solomonik4 community ratingsFew ratings1571—75%

31HJHeng Ji5 community ratingsFew ratings1571—80%

32DLDaniel Llano2 community ratingsFew ratings1570—100%

33DVDeepak Vasisht2 community ratingsFew ratings1570—100%

34CGCarl Gunter2 community ratingsFew ratings1570—100%

35AOAntony Oluoch2 community ratingsFew ratings1570——

36APAditya Parameswaran4 community ratingsFew ratings1563—100%

37LCLucas Cook2 community ratingsFew ratings1560——

38SASarita Adve18 community ratingsFew ratings1558—100%

39BBBrian Bailey14 community ratingsFew ratings1555—80%

40RMRuta Mehta5 community ratingsFew ratings1554—83%

41CHCinda Heeren77 community ratingsSome ratings1554—100%

42JBJohn Bambenek5 community ratingsFew ratings1546—100%

43EFEmily Fox1 community ratingFew ratings1541—100%

44MWMichael Wonderlich1 community ratingFew ratings1541—100%

45DHDavid Heath1 community ratingFew ratings1541—100%

46DKDakshita Khurana1 community ratingFew ratings1541—100%

47PSParis Smaragdis1 community ratingFew ratings1541—100%

48SMSasa Misailovic1 community ratingFew ratings1541—100%

49AVAchal Varma1 community ratingFew ratings1541—100%

50PRPrateek Rungta1 community ratingFew ratings1541——

51AYAnna Yershova17 community ratingsFew ratings1531—67%

52JHJiawei Han6 community ratingsFew ratings1522—67%

53SWShenlong Wang2 community ratingsFew ratings1521—50%

54MBMichael Bailey5 community ratingsFew ratings1520—75%

55ESEric Shaffer19 community ratingsFew ratings1519—78%

56PLPatrick Lin4 community ratingsFew ratings1518—75%

57AKAndreas Kloeckner11 community ratingsFew ratings1516—43%

58MHMichael Haberman6 community ratingsFew ratings1513—67%

59RWRichard Weinzierl1 community ratingFew ratings1512——

60KNKlara Nahrstedt1 community ratingFew ratings1512——

61ARArjun Rao3 community ratingsFew ratings1509—0%

62MFMargaret Fleck69 community ratingsSome ratings1506—54%

63CZCraig Zilles89 community ratingsSome ratings1506—42%

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