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,
#8501
Hubert Mara
#106240
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (51 years)
Hubert Mara is an Austrian Computer Scientist who specializes in Archaeoinformatics and the application of methods from computer science to the humanities, and thus a combination of these fields. Education and career Hubert Mara graduated in electrical engineering from the HTBLuVA in Wiener Neustadt and studied computer science at the TU Wien, graduating in 2006. Already during his studies he participated in excavationss in Israel and Peru, where he learned to combine methods of computer science and humanities. Early on, he participated in the development of new methods here, such as for 3D recording of ancient pottery for the Austrian Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.
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Roberto Scopigno
#155359
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John T. Brooks
#155363
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#8504
David H. Ellison
#155382
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#8505
Zhenxiang Lin
#155386
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#8506
Hiroyuki Mano
#155393
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#8507
Peter Dreger
#155440
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#8508
Vittorio Basevi
#155446
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#8509
Hossein Samadi Kafil
#155463
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#8510
Eckart Haneke
#155465
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#8511
Enno Schmidt
#155479
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8512
Tamal Krishna Dey
#155489
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#8513
Yves Rossetti
#155495
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Brian W. Bowen
#155500
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#8515
Hans–paul Schwefel
#155509
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Dirk Elewaut
#155520
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Roger A. Pierson
#155523
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Patrick Baudisch
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Patrick Baudisch is a computer science professor and the chair of the Human Computer Interaction Lab at Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam University. While his early research interests revolved around natural user interfaces and interactive devices, his research focus shifted to virtual reality and haptics in the late 2000s and to digital fabrication, such as 3D Printing and Laser cutting in the 2010s. Prior to teaching and researching at Hasso Plattner Institute, Patrick Baudisch was a research scientist at Microsoft Research and Xerox PARC. He has been a member of CHI Academy since 2013, and an ACM distinguished scientist since 2014.
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Yu-kwong Ricky Kwok
#155549
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Tullio Pilati
#155552
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#8521
Nakao Iwata
#155569
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#8522
Pascal Laugier
#155576
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Niels Christian Lind
#155577
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Mamannamana Vijayan
#155586
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Shigeomi Shimizu
#155587
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#8526
Ran Nathan
#127574
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1962 - Present (64 years)
Ran Nathan is an Israeli biologist, ornithologist, and academic. He is an ecologist who holds the Adelina and Massimo Della Pergola Chair of life Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior where he leads the Movement Ecology Lab. Additionally, Nathan is the director of the Minerva Center for Movement Ecology and the co-founding co-Editor-in-Chief of the free-access journal Movement Ecology .
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Gemma Galdón-Clavell
#128233
Overall Influence
1976 - Present (50 years)
Gemma Galdón-Clavell is a Spanish technology policy analyst who specializes in ethics and algorithmic accountability. She is a senior adviser to the European Commission and she has also provided advice to other international organisations. Forbes Magazine described her as “a leading voice on tech ethics and algorithmic accountability”.
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Mike Bennett
#68770
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1962 - Present (64 years)
Mike Bennett is a British writer and record producer. His first involvement with the music industry came when he was asked to write and produce Toyah Wilcox's Dreamchild and "Out of the Blue". The songs were released on Cryptic Records and featured collaborations.
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Shigeki Sugano
#155612
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Seiya Imoto
#155620
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#8531
Khorshed Alam
#155623
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Nicolino Ruperto
#155624
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#8533
Michael Hunger
#155629
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#8534
Mary R. Lynn
#155641
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#8535
Olivier Klein
#155646
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
#8536
Carlos M. Fonseca
#155659
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1968 - Present (58 years)
#8537
Gerald James Tesauro
#155661
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#8538
Martin Balslev Jørgensen
#155672
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#8539
Tomoaki Yamada
#155697
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2000 - Present (26 years)
#8540
Julia Kotlarsky
#32457
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1973 - Present (53 years)
Julia Kotlarsky is a New Zealand academic, and as of 2018 is a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career After her 2005 PhD thesis titled 'Management of globally distributed component-based software development projects' at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Kotlarsky moved to the University of Warwick, and then in 2012 joined Aston University as a full professor. In 2018 she moved to University of Auckland.
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Luis A. Videla
#155714
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Hawoong Jeong
#155717
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Chen Wen-tsuen
#84374
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1948 - Present (78 years)
Chen Wen-tsuen is an ethnic Taiwanese computer scientist, a distinguished research fellow at the Academia Sinica and a lifelong national chair of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan. From 2006 to 2010, he was the president of the National Tsing Hua University, a premier research university in Taiwan.
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Giuseppe Iannaccone
#125192
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Giuseppe Iannaccone is an Italian scientist, engineer and author in the field of solid-state electronics and quantum transport. He is Professor of Electronics at the University of Pisa, Italy, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , and Fellow of the American Physical Society .
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Ismail Laher
#155732
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1952 - Present (74 years)
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Naftale Katz
#155738
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Huiqiao Li
#155743
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Richard W. Katz
#155748
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Niko Beerenwinkel
#69937
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Niko Beerenwinkel, Ph.D. , is a German mathematician, who is active in the field of computational biology; he is an associate professor of the ETH Zurich since April 2013. Awards Otto Hahn Medal - Max Planck Society ;Emmy Noether Fellowship - German National Science Foundation.
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Paul Lukowicz
#155779
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