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.
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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,
#9601
Ed Seidel
#104914
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1957 - Present (69 years)
Edward Seidel is an American academic administrator and scientist serving as the president of the University of Wyoming since July 1, 2020. He previously served as the Vice President for Economic Development and Innovation for the University of Illinois System, as well as a Founder Professor in the Department of Physics and a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Illinois from 2014 to 2017.
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Yoshihiko Takano
#163493
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#9603
John Gerald Cleary
#163502
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#9604
Junichi Takagi
#163505
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#9605
Vincent Vanhoucke
#163511
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#9606
Irfan Anjum Badruddin
#163520
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#9607
Massimo Di Maio
#163523
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#9608
Khalina Abdan
#163536
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#9609
Ranjan Ganguli
#163546
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#9610
Katsuhiko Suzuki
#163549
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#9611
Ulf Dittmer
#163557
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#9612
Takashi Hashimoto
#163562
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#9613
Dirk Roose
#163571
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#9614
Markus Schedl
#163576
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#9615
H. Rex Gaskins
#163583
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#9616
Clement Hamani
#163592
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#9617
Jeff Lewis
#25331
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Jeff Lewis is an Australian academic who is professor of media and cultural studies at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology , Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of numerous refereed articles and books which focus on cultural interface and conflict. His work on political violence and terrorism has been particularly important for government, community and media debate. Lewis is also a documentary-maker and musician.
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Allen Van Gelder
#163599
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#9619
Qifa Zhou
#163604
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#9620
Martha Hickey
#163605
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#9621
G. Octo Barnett
#163609
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#9622
Sam Gilliam
#15147
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1933 - 2022 (89 years)
Sam Gilliam was an American color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist. Gilliam was associated with the Washington Color School, a group of Washington, D.C.-area artists that developed a form of abstract art from color field painting in the 1950s and 1960s. His works have also been described as belonging to abstract expressionism and lyrical abstraction. He worked on stretched, draped and wrapped canvas, and added sculptural 3D elements. He was recognized as the first artist to introduce the idea of a draped, painted canvas hanging without stretcher bars around 1965. This was a maj...
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Wei-li Wu
#163636
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#9624
Sandro Nižetić
#163640
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#9625
Frank Jenko
#163646
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#9626
Kazutaka Aonuma
#163663
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#9627
Alexandra Duel-Hallen
#45637
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Alexandra Duel-Hallen is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University known for her research in wireless networks. Education Duel-Hallen is a 1982 graduate of Case Western Reserve University, with a double major in mathematics and computer science. She earned a master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1983, and completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1987. Her dissertation, Detection Algorithms for Intersymbol Interference Channels, was supervised by Chris Heegard.
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Yoshiharu Kimura
#163675
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#9629
Masahiro Ito
#163683
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#9630
Gary Owens
#163684
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#9631
Christian Taube
#163687
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#9632
Shu-tao Xia
#163690
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#9633
Stewart Robinson
#163697
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#9634
Motoki Iwasaki
#163701
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#9635
Katina Michael
#163703
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1976 - Present (50 years)
#9636
Hubert Schaller
#163709
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#9637
Gavin E. Crooks
#163711
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#9638
Michael Auli
#163714
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#9639
Youcef Saad
#163715
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#9640
Marion M. Hetherington
#163723
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#9641
Bonnie MacLean
#23558
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1939 - 2020 (81 years)
Bonnie MacLean , also known as Bonnie MacLean Graham, was an American artist known for her classic rock posters. In the 1960s and 1970s she created posters and other art for the promotion of rock and roll concerts managed by Bill Graham, using the iconic psychedelic art style of the day. MacLean continued her art as a painter focusing mostly on nudess, still lifes, and landscapess. Her work has been placed alongside the "big five"—male Haight-Ashbury poster artists who were seminal to the "iconography of the counterculture scene."
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Fernanda Borges
#163741
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#9643
Krste Asanovic̀
#163745
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#9644
Toshiaki Tanaka
#163774
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#9645
Zhou Songyang
#163779
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#9646
Yong Man Ro
#163784
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#9647
Gerard Espinosa
#163790
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#9648
Verena Winiwarter
#42939
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1961 - Present (65 years)
Verena Winiwarter is an Austrian environmental historian. She has held the office of Dean of the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt since 2010. Her research focus is on the environmental history of agrarian societies and on Austrian environmental history, as well as the philosophy of science of inter- and transdisciplinary research.
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Srinivasan Damodaran
#163794
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#9650
Junji Sugiyama
#163823
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