The Most Influential People Across History
Find the most influential people in 24 academic disciplines and numerous subdisciplines
Find famous and important people related to your research. This is an excellent tool for research papers, topic papers, and building a bibliography. Using our influence-based algorithm, our rankings synthesize data from Wikipedia, Wikidata, Semantic Scholar, and CrossRef.
Students and researchers now have a fast and reliable way to find influential thinkers from 24 disciplines and 300 sub-disciplines (and growing). If you want to find history’s most influential philsosophers, or the world’s most influential mathematicians currently, now you can.
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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,
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Wolfgang Holzer
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Kunal Talwar
#154935
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Mohamed Lamkanfi
#154940
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#8454
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
#132735
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1975 - Present (51 years)
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins is an American computer scientist who is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Michigan. Jenkins works on human–computer interaction and the design of robotic systems that learn from demonstration. He was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2006 and made a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2019.
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Sertaç Karaman
#154945
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#8456
Kyoichi Kijima
#94962
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1951 - Present (75 years)
Kyoichi Jim Kijima is a Japanese systems scientist and professor of Decision Systems Science at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Biography Jim Kijima received an M.A. from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1976 and a PhD in 1980. Later, in 1988, he spent a year in England to familiarize himself with soft systems engineering. In 1997 he spent another four months in England in collaboration with members of the United Kingdom Systems Society to further familiarize himself with the soft systems approach.
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Giacomo Novara
#154952
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#8458
Marco Boscaro
#154957
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1947 - Present (79 years)
#8459
Antonio Finelli
#154961
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#8460
Miyuki Azuma
#154971
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#8461
Demetrios G. Lainiotis
#155000
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#8462
Ira Wilson
#127958
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Ira B. Wilson is an American physician and scholar of health services and policy. He is currently Professor of Medicine at Brown University's Alpert Medical School and Professor and Chair of Health Services, Policy and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health.
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Nick Craswell
#155003
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#8464
Jianping Shi
#155013
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#8465
Marina Noris
#155022
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#8466
Pin‐yu Chen
#155024
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#8467
Yanxi Liu
#131493
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Yanxi Liu is a Chinese-American computer scientist specializing in computer vision. She is known for her research on computational symmetry, computational regularity, and the uses of symmetry and regularity in computer vision, as well as on feature selection for motion tracking. She is a professor of computer science at Pennsylvania State University, where she directs the Motion Capture Lab for Smart Health and co-directs the Lab for Perception, Action and Cognition.
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Rakez Kayed
#155037
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#8469
Elizabeth Belding
#128769
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Elizabeth Michelle Belding is a computer scientist specializing in mobile computing and wireless networks. She is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Education and career Belding graduated from Florida State University in 1996 with two degrees: one in computer science and a second in applied mathematics. Both degrees were Summa Cum Laude with Honors. She went to the University of California, Santa Barbara on a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, and completed her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering in 2000. Her dissertation, und...
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Nick G. Kingsbury
#155049
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Yves. Robert
#155055
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Ulli Englert
#155065
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#8473
Olivier Poch
#155070
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1987 - Present (39 years)
#8474
Svenn Torgersen
#155073
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#8475
John D. C. Linnell
#155076
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#8476
Bradford A. Hawkins
#155077
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#8477
Jack Mahoney
#28031
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1931 - Present (95 years)
John Aloysius "Jack" Mahoney SJ is a Scottish Jesuit, moral theologian, and academic, specialising in applied ethics and business ethics. He was principal of Heythrop College, London from 1976 to 1981, F. D. Maurice Professor of Moral and Social Theology at King's College, London from 1986 to 1993, and Dixons Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility at the London Business School from 1993 to 1998. He was also Gresham Professor of Commerce between 1988 and 1993.
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Ashish Kumar Singh
#155115
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Baruch Schieber
#136434
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1958 - Present (68 years)
Baruch M. Schieber is a Professor of the Department of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Director of the Institute for Future Technologies. Early life and education Baruch Schieber was born in Tel Aviv and was raised in Givatayim . His father was a bank branch manager and his mother a housemaker. He graduated from Zeitlin High School in 1976.
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Thierry Burnouf
#155127
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Sujita Kumar Kar
#155131
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#8482
Kevin Almeroth
#142478
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1950 - Present (76 years)
Kevin C. Almeroth is a professor of computer science at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a graduate of Georgia Tech where he obtained his B.S. in information and computer science in 1992 as well as M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science in 1994 and 1997 respectively. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2014 for contributions to multicast communication, wireless networks, and educational technology. He is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Waldemar W. Koczkodaj
#112340
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1951 - Present (75 years)
Waldemar Koczkodaj , is a Polish-Canadian computer scientist specialized in expert systems, assessments by pairwise comparisons method, inconsistency theory, bioinformatics, rating scale improvement, and behavioral addiction. He is known for the introduction of the inconsistency indicator for pairwise comparisons. He proposed axiomatization for the inconsistency indicator in 2014
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Nilton Curi
#155146
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Kiyotaka Asakura
#155148
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1958 - Present (68 years)
#8486
Jaka Sunarso
#155172
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#8487
Martin Farrall
#155185
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#8488
Jack Tsai
#155201
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#8489
Thierry Brousse
#155203
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#8490
Juergen Gall
#155213
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#8491
Gina Adams
#61438
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Gina Adams is an American interdisciplinary artist and activist. Family Gina Adams' parents were Philip F. Adams , born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Elaine Rose Theriault Adams who lived in Kittery, Maine. Her family members operated the Kittery Trading Post in the town.
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Chengqing Wu
#155224
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Andreas Zimmer
#155225
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Armando Manduca
#155267
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A. Arie Hasman
#155279
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Perry R. Cook
#155317
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Rolf Jenni
#155319
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Jaleh Varshosaz
#155335
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#8499
Kenneth Andrew Ross
#155347
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Atsunori Matsuda
#155349
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