The Most Influential People Across History
Find the most influential people in 24 academic disciplines and numerous subdisciplines
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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,
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Bonnie Dorr
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Bonnie Jean Dorr is an American computer scientist specializing in natural language processing, machine translation, automatic summarization, social computing, and explainable artificial intelligence. She is a professor and director of the Natural Language Processing Research Laboratory in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida. Gainesville, Florida She is professor emerita of computer science and linguistics and former dean at the University of Maryland, College Park, former associate director at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine ...
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Ishak Hashim
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Hiroshi Nishihara
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Martin Morad
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Ralf Bender
#135655
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1958 - Present (68 years)
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Zhang Xingdong
#125904
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1938 - Present (88 years)
Zhang Xingdong is a Chinese biomedical scientist and professor at Sichuan University. He is the President of the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering , and Honorary President of the Chinese Society for Biomaterials .
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Olga Ciccarelli
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Sharon Oviatt
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Sharon Oviatt is an internationally recognized computer scientist, professor and researcher known for her work in the field of human–computer interaction on human-centered multimodal interface design and evaluation.
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Barbara Hammer
#135698
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1970 - Present (56 years)
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Shaukat Ali
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S. Jay Samuels
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Syed Sohail Hussain Naqvi
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Syed Sohail Hussain Naqvi is the Rector of the University of Central Asia . Prior to joining UCA in August 2018, he was the fourth vice chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences. He was executive director of Higher Education Commission , Pakistan.
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Michal Borkovec
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Carsten Juel
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Julio Caro Baroja
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1914 - 1995 (81 years)
Julio Caro Baroja was a Spanish anthropologist, historian, linguist and essayist. He was known for his special interest in Basque culture, Basque history and Basque society. Of Basque ancestry, he was the nephew of the renowned writer Pio Baroja and his brother, painter, writer and engraver Ricardo Baroja. He is buried in the family plot of the cemetery of Bera, Navarre, near their home, Itzea.
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Satoshi Okabe
#135772
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Daniel Huttenlocher
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1958 - Present (68 years)
Daniel Peter Huttenlocher is an American computer scientist, academic administrator and corporate director. He is the inaugural dean of the Schwarzman College of Computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Prior to this, he notably served as the inaugural dean of Cornell Tech at Cornell University, and as a member of Amazon's board of directors.
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Misha Belkin
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Tomas Vu
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1963 - Present (63 years)
Tomas Vu is an American artist whose primary media are painting, printmaking, and installation art. He is currently LeRoy Neiman Professor in Visual Arts at Columbia University. Early life and education He was born in 1963 in Saigon, Vietnam and moved to El Paso, Texas at the age of ten. He received his BFA from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1987, and his MFA from Yale University in 1990.
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Danda. B. Rawat
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Richard D. James
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1952 - Present (74 years)
Richard D. James is a mechanician and materials scientist. He is currently the Russell J. Penrose Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota. He was educated at Brown University and received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University under the direction of J.L. Ericksen.
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Vicki L. Hanson
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1951 - Present (75 years)
Vicki Hanson FACM FRSE FBCS, is an American computer scientist noted for her research on human-computer interaction and accessibility and for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. She was named the Chief Executive Officer of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2018 having served as its President from 2016 to 2018.
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Reed Shuldiner
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Reed Shuldiner is the Alvin L. Snowiss Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and co-director of the Center for Tax Law and Policy. Biography Shuldiner has a Bachelor of Science in engineering degree from Princeton University , a juris doctor degree from Harvard University Law School , and a doctor of philosophy degree in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology . From 1984 to 1986 he was an associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering.
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Venugopal V. Veeravalli
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1963 - Present (63 years)
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Giuseppe Pezzotti
#135907
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Kazuya Yamaguchi
#135909
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Andrew S Gibbons
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2000 - Present (26 years)
Andrew S. Gibbons is an American practitioner and theorist in the field of instructional design and technology. He has proposed an architectural theory of instructional design influenced by the structural principles of artifact modularization drawn from a number of design disciplines, as exemplified by the work of Carliss Baldwin and Kim B. Clark.
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Alexander Tetelbaum
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1948 - Present (78 years)
Alexander Y. Tetelbaum is an educator, inventor, scientist, academician, and entrepreneur. He has been a pioneer in the Electronic Design Automation and Artificial Intelligence industries since the 1960s. He has been selected and has held high level positions in academia and industry. He is a Fellow and Honorary Doctor of several universities, academies, and societies. He holds more than 40 US patents and is the author and co-author of 300 publications, including 16 books. Last published book: "Minimum Number of Timing Signoff Corners"
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Xiaojun Wu
#135957
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Bruno Crestani
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Mel Levy
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Chaoliang Tan
#135977
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Dirk Arnold
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1966 - Present (60 years)
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Gabriel Taubin
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Frederick Hayes‐roth
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Orit Peleg
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1981 - Present (45 years)
Orit Peleg is an Israeli computer scientist, biophysicist and Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department and the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, CO. She is also an External Professor of the Santa Fe Institute. She is known for her work on collective behavior of insects and the biophysics of soft living systems, including honeybees and fireflies. Applications of her work range from human communication, smart-material design, and swarm robotics. She has won national and international awards and prizes, including a Sloan Research Fellowship in...
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Klaus Jung
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Sadao Kawamura
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Susan Gerhart
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1950 - Present (76 years)
Susan Gerhart is a semi-retired computer scientist. Education Susan Gerhart received her BA in Mathematics from Ohio Wesleyan University, her MS in Communication Sciences from University of Michigan, and her PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. She completed her thesis "Verification of APL Programs" in 1972 under thesis advisor Donald W. Loveland. She credited Sputnik with having inspired her to study science.
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Miaofang Chi
#94833
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Miaofang Chi is a distinguished scientist at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences in Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her primary research interests are understanding interfacial charge transfer and mass transport behavior in energy and quantum materials and systems by advancing and employing novel electron microscopy techniques, such as in situ and cryogenic scanning transmission electron microscopy. She was awarded the 2016 Microscopy Society of America Burton Medal and the 2019 Microanalysis Society Kurt Heinrich Award. She was named to Clarivate's list of Highly Cited Researchers in 2...
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Ole Winther
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Kwan-Liu Ma
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1960 - Present (66 years)
Kwan-Liu Ma is an American computer scientist. He was born and grew up in Taipei, Taiwan and came to the United States pursuing advanced study in 1983. He is a distinguished professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. His research interests include visualization, computer graphics, human computer interaction, and high-performance computing.
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Caiming Xiong
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Takehiro Sasao
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Laurent Kaiser
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Mohamed Cheriet
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Kazuki Nakanishi
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Ariela Benigni
#136086
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Christopher Krügel
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Alessio Ghezzi
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