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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#10751

Larry Rivers

#42271

Overall Influence

1923 - 2002 (79 years)

Larry Rivers was an American artist, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor. Considered by many scholars to be the "Godfather" and "Grandfather" of Pop art, he was one of the first artists to merge non-objective, non-narrative art with narrative and objective abstraction.

#10752

Frederick Hart

#29363

Overall Influence

1943 - 1999 (56 years)

Frederick Elliott Hart was an American sculptor. The creator of hundreds of public monuments, private commissions, portraits, and other works of art, Hart is most famous for Ex Nihilo, a part of his Creation Sculptures at Washington National Cathedral, and The Three Servicemen , at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

#10753

Raja Chatila

#174045

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Raja Chatila is a Professor of Robotics, AI and Ethics at ISIR-CNRS and Pierre and Marie Curie University, France. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for contributions to robot navigation and cognitive robotics.

#10754

Dehong Xu

#135101

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Mark Dehong Xu is a Professor and Director of Power Electronics Institute at the National Engineering Research Center of Applied Power Electronics in Zhejiang University, China. Education Xu got his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, in 1989. He serves on the faculty of Zhejiang University as a full professor, since 1996, and prior to it, for a year, was a visiting professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering in Tokyo University in Tokyo, Japan.

#10755

Julian Stanczak

#43560

Overall Influence

1928 - 2017 (89 years)

Julian Stanczak was a Polish-born American painter and printmaker who was one of the central figures in the Op art movement in the U.S. during the 1960s and 1970s. Stanczak is primarily known for his polychromatic abstract paintings made using acrylic on canvas which rely on an interplay between geometric forms and lines.

#10756

Tanja Lange

#174225

Overall Influence

#10757

Waltraut Cooper

#64002

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Waltraut Cooper , is an Austrian artist, generally described as Light Artist, primarily concerned with Art and Science, Concept Art, Digital Art. Waltraut Cooper studied mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Vienna and the Paris-Sorbonne. After teaching at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she began a career as an artist and studied painting and graphic arts in Lisbon and Frankfurt am Main, followed by teaching at the University of Arts in Linz. She speaks German, Latin, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and Russian.

#10758

Biing-Hwang Juang

#163092

Overall Influence

Biing Hwang "Fred" Juang is a communication and information scientist, best known for his work in speech coding, speech recognition and acoustic signal processing. He joined Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002 as Motorola Foundation Chair Professor in the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering.

#10759

Ellen J. Kennedy

Ellen J. Kennedy

#47762

Overall Influence

Ellen J. Kennedy is the founder and Executive Director of World Without Genocide, a human rights organization headquartered at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, St. Paul, MN. Through World Without Genocide, Kennedy promotes Holocaust and genocide education in high schools, colleges, faith-based organizations, and civic groups and advocates with elected officials at city, state, and national levels on genocide prevention. Kennedy was a professor at the University of St. Thomas for nearly twenty years and the Interim Director at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota, for three years.

#10760

Robert Ryman

#8829

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Robert Ryman was an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. He was best known for abstract, white-on-white paintings. He lived and worked in New York City.

#10761

Peter Wolf

#174319

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

#10762

Yuan Xie

#174320

Overall Influence

#10763

Richard A Stone

#174333

Overall Influence

#10764

Lynn Corcoran

#58892

Overall Influence

Lynn Corcoran is an American–Australian immunologist who is Professor of Immunology at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. Her research considers cancer, parasitology and immunology, with a focus on B cells biology. She was inducted into the Victorian government's Honour Roll in 2013.

#10765

Toshifumi Yokota

#34467

Overall Influence

Toshifumi Yokota is a medical scientist and professor of medical genetics at the University of Alberta, where he also holds the titles of the Friends of Garrett Cumming Research & Muscular Dystrophy Canada Endowed Research Chair and the Henri M. Toupin Chair in Neurological Science. He is best known for his studies of antisense oligonucleotide-based therapeutics for muscular dystrophy that led to the development of an FDA-approved drug viltolarsen. His research interests include precision medicine for muscular dystrophy and genetic diseases. He has co-edited two books both published in the M...

#10766

Edna Cukierman

#172240

Overall Influence

Edna "Eti" Cukierman is a Mexican biochemist who is a professor at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. She serves as co-director of the Marvin & Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute. Her research investigates pancreatic cancer and the tumor microenvironment.

#10767

Michael Triantafyllou

#31853

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Michael Triantafyllou is Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Center for Ocean Engineering, Head of the Area of Ocean Science and Engineering, and Director of the Testing Tank and Propeller Tunnel Facilities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He is best known for his work on underwater robots, based upon and emulating the performance of fish, including the six-foot laboratory robot the RoboTuna , the free-swimming RoboPike , and the RoboTurtle .

#10768

Yang Fuqing

#122785

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Yang Fuqing is a Chinese computer software expert who is a professor at the School of Information Science and Technology, Peking University, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and currently chairwoman of the university's School of Software and Microelectronics and director of National Engineering Research Center of Software Engineering.

#10769

John Gustafson

#171073

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

John Leroy Gustafson is an American computer scientist and businessman, chiefly known for his work in high-performance computing such as the invention of Gustafson's law, introducing the first commercial computer cluster, measuring with QUIPS, leading the reconstruction of the Atanasoff–Berry computer, inventing the unum number format and computation system, and several awards for computer speedup. Currently he is the Chief Technology Officer at Ceranovo, Inc. He was the Chief Graphics Product Architect and Senior Fellow at AMD from September 2012 until June 2013, and he previously held the positions of Architect of Intel Labs-SC, CEO of Massively Parallel Technologies, Inc.

#10770

Vivian Carpenter

#40190

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Dr. Vivian Carpenter is an accounting academic and business executive. She focuses her academic research on institutional theory, public sector accounting, and the political effects of adoption of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles by the public sector.

#10771

James Powderly

#89458

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

James Powderly is an American artist, designer and engineer whose work has focused on creating tools for graffiti artists and political activists, designing robots and augmented reality platforms, and promoting open source culture.

#10772

Michael Hennell

#92483

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Professor Michael A. Hennell is a British computer scientist who has made leading contributions in the field of software testing. Michael Hennell was a Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool in England.

#10773

Baldwyn Torto

#68998

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Baldwyn Torto is a Ghanaian scientist. He is a chemical ecologist, and a Principal Scientist at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology . He also doubles as an extraordinary professor and the head of Behavioural and Chemical Ecology Unit, Department of Zoology and Entomology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is a fellow of the Entomological Society of America, a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, and a member of the American Chemical Society.

#10774

Katsuhiko Suzuki

#174427

Overall Influence

#10775

Eleanor Krawitz Kolchin

#95190

Overall Influence

1927 - 2019 (92 years)

Eleanor Krawitz Kolchin was an American mathematician, computer programmer, author, and teacher. She worked at Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University to calculate the orbit of planets, phases of the moon, and trajectories of asteroids using IBM tabulating machines. Her calculations were used in the Apollo program.

#10776

Martin Woodward

#172519

Overall Influence

1948 - 2006 (58 years)

Dr Martin R. Woodward was a British computer scientist who made leading contributions in the field of in software testing. Martin Woodward was an academic in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool in England. As part of his leading role in software testing, for 13 years, until shortly before his death, Woodward was the Chief Editor of the journal Software Testing, Verification & Reliability , a major international journal in the field of software testing.

#10777

Charles Kennedy

#174494

Overall Influence

#10778

Tony Hoare

#174497

Overall Influence

#10779

Jan Karlsson

#174498

Overall Influence

#10780

Atsuko Miyaji

#69214

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Atsuko Miyaji is a Japanese cryptographer and number theorist known for her research on elliptic-curve cryptography and software obfuscation. She is a professor in the Division of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, at Osaka University.

#10781

John Heard

#60200

Overall Influence

1945 - 2017 (72 years)

John Heard Jr. was an American actor. Heard made his debut appearance in film with the ensemble Between the Lines . He appeared in a number of successful films, including Heart Beat , Cutter's Way , Cat People , Beaches , and Deceived . Other films include The Trip to Bountiful , Big , The Pelican Brief , White Chicks , and his role as Kevin McCallister's father, Peter, in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York . From 1995 to 1996, he played the role of Roy Foltrigg in the television series The Client. From 2005 to 2006, Heard played the role of Governor Frank Tancredi in Prison Break.

#10782

Patrick Doherty

#174529

Overall Influence

#10783

Pragya D. Yadav

#145936

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Pragya D. Yadav is an Indian scientist at the ICMR-National Institute of Virology , who is known for her research contributions in the field of communicable diseases and highly pathogenic viral infections, such as Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever , Nipah, Ebola, leading to improvising national public health surveillance policy for interventions and management. Yadav is among the scientists who detected the first three COVID-19 pandemic cases in India. She headed the team that developed Covaxin, the first indigenous COVID-19 vaccine in India

#10784

Marco Brambilla

#174582

Overall Influence

#10785

Victor Assad Najjar

#19728

Overall Influence

1914 - 2002 (88 years)

Victor Assad Najjar was a Lebanese-born American pediatrician and microbiologist at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Vanderbilt University and Tufts University. Along with John Fielding Crigler, Najjar is known for Crigler–Najjar syndrome.

#10786

Rick Millane

#155568

Overall Influence

Rick P. Millane is a New Zealand electrical and computer engineer currently Professor at University of Canterbury and an Elected Fellow of The Royal Society of New Zealand. A cited expert in his field, his research involves structural biology, molecular imaging and computational imaging.

#10787

Florian Markowetz

#167904

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Florian Markowetz is the Professor of Computational Oncology at the University of Cambridge. He is a Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Director and co-founder of Tailor Bio, a genomics company aiming to improve precision medicine for cancers with high levels of chromosomal instability.

#10788

Max Garagnani

#125362

Overall Influence

Massimiliano Garagnani is a University Professor at the University of London, and is primarily known for his work on bio-realistic neural network models that closely mimic the structure, connectivity, and physiology of the human cortex. Garagnani presently runs the Goldsmiths Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postgraduate Programme at the University of London, and further serves as a visiting researcher at the Free University of Berlin.

#10789

Roger Green

#135759

Overall Influence

1932 - 2009 (77 years)

Roger Curtis Green was an American-born, New Zealand-based archaeologist, professor emeritus at The University of Auckland, and member of the National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of New Zealand. He was awarded the Hector and Marsden Medals and was an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his contributions to the study of Pacific culture history.

#10790

Robert Barry

#14697

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Robert Barry is an American artist. Since 1967, Barry has produced non-material works of art, installationss, and performance art using a variety of otherwise invisible media. In 1968, Robert Barry is quoted as saying "Nothing seems to me the most potent thing in the world."

#10791

Vitaly Vulf

#45154

Overall Influence

1930 - 2011 (81 years)

Vitaly Yakovlevich Vulf was a Russian art, drama, film critic, literary critic, translator, TV and radio broadcaster and critic. Biography Vitaly Vulf was born in Baku, where his father Yakov was a lawyer. Vulf's mother, Helen Yelena Belenkaya, graduated from Baku University and was a teacher of Russian language. She died in 1974.

#10792

Andrew Davies

#174667

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

#10793

Ofer Strichman

#167458

Overall Influence

Ofer Strichman is a professor of computational logic and computer science at the Davidson Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He holds the Joseph Gruenblat chair in production engineering.

#10794

Michael J. Freedman

#174704

Overall Influence

#10795

Robin F. C. Farrow

#171592

Overall Influence

Robin F. C. Farrow is a crystallographer. Farrow, an employee of IBM at the time, was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1998, "[f]or pioneering the development of molecular beam epitaxy to grow and study epitaxial semiconductors, metastable phases, dielectrics, magnetic elements and alloys."

#10796

Magne Kristiansen

#133600

Overall Influence

1932 - 2017 (85 years)

Magne “Kris” Kristiansen was an electrical engineer and the P. W. Horn Professor and Emeritus Professor at Texas Tech University, formerly the C. B. Thornton Professor from 1990 to 2009. He is member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Russian Academy of Science.

#10797

Liam Kennedy

#95039

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Liam Kennedy is an Irish historian, emeritus professor of history at Queen's University, Belfast. Biography Liam Kennedy was born in rural Tipperary, Ireland. In 2005, Kennedy stood against Gerry Adams as an independent candidate for Belfast West, to protest against IRA violence especially paramilitary punishment attacks. He finished last, with 147 votes. He has called for a commission of inquiry into punishment attacks, which he considers a form of child abuse, considering that many victims are minors and some younger than 14. According to Kennedy, Sinn Féin is involved in the attacks, which...

#10798

Tim Kraska

#172787

Overall Influence

Tim Kraska is a German computer scientist specializing in data systems and the intersection of systems and machine learning. He is currently an associate professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

#10799

Elizabeth Peyton

#19043

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Elizabeth Joy Peyton is an American contemporary artist working primarily in painting, drawing, and printmaking. Best known for figures from her own life and those beyond it, including close friends, historical personae, and icons of contemporary culture, Peyton's portraits have regularly featured artists, writers, musicians, and actors.

#10800

Takuya Hashimoto

#174781

Overall Influence

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