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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#10801

David Theodore Blaauw

#134327

Overall Influence

David Theodore Blaauw is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2012 for contributions to adaptive and low power circuit design.

#10802

Peng Gao

#174801

Overall Influence

#10803

Lois Mailou Jones

Lois Mailou Jones

#25825

Overall Influence

1905 - 1998 (93 years)

Lois Mailou Jones was an artist and educator. Her work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection. She is often associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

#10804

Tong Zhu

#174833

Overall Influence

#10805

Tajana Rosing

#124210

Overall Influence

Tajana Šimunić Rosing is an American computer scientist and computer engineer specializing in embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, and smart city infrastructure, including the reliability of these systems and the control of their temperature and energy usage. She is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where she directs the System Energy Efficiency Lab and holds the Fratamico Endowed Chair.

#10806

Christian Lorenzi

#85194

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Christian Lorenzi is Professor of Experimental Psychology at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, where he has been Director of the Department of Cognitive Studies and Director of Scientific Studies until. Lorenzi works on auditory perception.

#10807

Paul Ellison

#54467

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Paul Ellison is co-principal bass at the Grand Teton Festivals, and is Professor of Double Bass at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music. He was also on the faculty of The Colburn School Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, California.

#10808

Tamar Eilam

#95100

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Tamar Eilam is an Israeli-American computer scientist at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights, New York whose work for IBM centers around DevOps and configuration management. Eilam completed her Ph.D. in 2000 at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Her dissertation, Cost versus Quality: Tradeoffs in Communication Networks, was jointly supervised by Shlomo Moran and Shmuel Zaks. She immigrated to the US in 2000, after completing her Ph.D., to join IBM Research.

#10809

Robert T. Oliver

#55371

Overall Influence

1909 - 2000 (91 years)

Robert Tarbell Oliver was an American writer, lecturer, and an authority on public speaking, argumentation and debate, and Asian rhetorical traditions. Biography Oliver was born in Sweet Home, Oregon. He graduated from Pacific University. He received his M.A. from the University of Oregon in 1933 and earned his Ph.D. in Speech from the University of Wisconsin in 1936. He served as Assistant Director of the Victory Speakers Bureau in the Office of Civilian Defense in Washington, D.C. during World War II. He was also Chief of the National Food Conservation Office in the War Foods Department.

#10810

Michael Steele

#174908

Overall Influence

#10811

David Bernstein

David Bernstein

#13736

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

David E. Bernstein is a law professor at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia, where he has taught since 1995. His primary areas of scholarly research are constitutional history and the admissibility of expert testimony. Bernstein is a contributor to the legal blog The Volokh Conspiracy. Bernstein is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law, Economics and Public Policy, a Claude Lambe Fellow of the Institute for Humane Studies, and a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. He received his B.A. degree summa cum laude with honors in...

#10812

Hugo O. Engelmann

Hugo O. Engelmann

#56139

Overall Influence

1917 - 2002 (85 years)

Hugo Otto Engelmann was an American sociologist, anthropologist and general systems theorist. Throughout his work he emphasized the significance of history. Biography Born September 11, 1917, in Vienna, Austria, Engelmann arrived in the United States in 1939, just two weeks before World War II broke out in Europe. Having fled first to Czechoslovakia and later to France as a result of the German annexation of Austria in 1938, he worked as a laborer in the fields of France until he was able to sail to America, as recorded in Journey Into a New Life.

#10813

Jean-Paul Gonzalez

#58737

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Jean-Paul Joseph Gonzalez is a French virologist. He graduated from the Medical School of Bordeaux University France. Research career Gonzalez is a virologist whose main fields of research encompass the fundamentals and domains of disease emergence, viral disease and eco-epidemiology . He received his PhD in viral ecology in 1984 from the University of Clermont-Ferrand in France. He was recruited by the French Institute of Research for Development, IRD , and he dedicated his career to research, training, and providing expertise for developing countries across the Americas, Africa and Asia. ...

#10814

Bin Du

#174949

Overall Influence

#10815

Dulal Panda

#134501

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Dulal Panda is an Indian cell biologist and the chair professor at the department of biosciences and bioengineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Presently, he is the Director of NIPER, SAS Nagar . Known for his studies on microtubule dynamics and FtsZ assembly dynamics, Panda is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences ...

#10816

John Prescott

#174966

Overall Influence

#10817

Don Millard

#105838

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Don Millard is a Program Director at the National Science Foundation . Prior to joining NSF, he was a faculty member at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the originator of the Mobile Studio Project. In 1999 he started thinking about a way to enable students to perform experiments anytime, anyplace—specifically those that use an oscilloscope, function generator, digital control, and some form of power supply. He started the Mobile Studio project by looking at commercially available solutions, which were prohibitively expensive; while choosing to involve students in bringing the project's vision to reality.

#10818

Philip Lazarovici

#171101

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Philip Lazarovici is a neuropharmacologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Institute of Drug Research of the School of Pharmacy. Education Philip was born to Bracha and Leon Lazarovici on 1 October 1949 in Roman, Romania to a Jewish family. When he was 13 years old, his family immigrated to Israel where he developed an early interest in biology. He attended the Alliance Israélite Universelle-Carmia High School in Jerusalem and later, he enrolled in Israeli Defense Forces Armored Infantry until 1971, serving as first sergeant. He completed his Bachelor of Science in ...

#10819

Paolo Piccione

#74551

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Paolo Piccione is an Italian mathematician working in differential geometry, Riemannian geometry and analysis. He is professor at the University of São Paulo since 1996 and president of the Brazilian Mathematical Society since 2017.

#10820

Takanori Fukushima

#174986

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#10821

Harry Anderson

#49662

Overall Influence

1906 - 1996 (90 years)

Joseph Harry Anderson was an American illustrator and a member of the Illustrator's Hall of Fame. A devout Seventh-day Adventist artist, he is best known for Christian-themed illustrations he painted for the Adventist church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . He was also a popular illustrator of short stories in American weekly magazines during the 1930s and early 1940s.

#10822

Hailong Li

#174996

Overall Influence

#10823

Anna Castelli Ferrieri

#18588

Overall Influence

1918 - 2006 (88 years)

Anna Castelli Ferrieri was an Italian architect and industrial designer. She is most known for her influence in the use of plastics as a mainstream design material and her cofounding of Kartell, an Italian contemporary furniture company.

#10824

Naoki Yamamoto

#175007

Overall Influence

#10825

Masahiko Watanabe

#175009

Overall Influence

#10826

Robert Arneson

#20916

Overall Influence

1930 - 1992 (62 years)

Robert Carston Arneson was an American sculptor and professor of ceramics in the Art department at University of California, Davis for nearly three decades. Early life and education Robert Carston Arneson was born on September 4, 1930, in Benicia, California. He graduated from Benicia High School and spent much of his early life as a cartoonist for a local paper. Arneson studied at California College of the Arts in Oakland, California, for his BFA degree and went on to receive an MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California, in 1958. At Mills College he studied under Antonio Prieto.

#10827

Yumi Hogan

#39590

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Yumi Hogan is a Korean–American artist. She served as the first lady of Maryland as wife of Governor Larry Hogan from 2015 to 2023, and is the first Korean American first lady of a U.S. state and the first Asian American first lady in the history of Maryland.

#10828

Chawky Frenn

#48912

Overall Influence

Chawky Frenn is a Lebanese-born American artist, author, and art professor. He currently teaches art at George Mason University in northern Virginia. His highly realistic paintings have strong narrative social and political elements. Frenn is a former Fulbright scholar, and currently resides in the Greater Washington, D.C. area.

#10829

Sunghyun Choi

#120796

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Biography Sunghyun Choi is an Executive Vice President and Head of the Advanced Communications Research Center at Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics, Seoul, Korea. He was a professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University , Seoul, Korea from Sept. 2002 to Aug. 2019, and served as a Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Engineering during the last two years at SNU. Before joining SNU in September 2002, he was with Philips Research USA, Briarcliff Manor, New York, USA, as a Senior Member Research Staff for three years. He was also a visiting ...

#10830

Sophie E. Jackson

#172626

Overall Influence

Sophie Elizabeth Jackson is a British biochemist and Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Cambridge. Her research considers protein folding and assembly, She is interested in topological knots, molecular complexes and the beta barrel protein.

#10831

Mikyoung Kim

#58643

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Mikyoung Kim, FASLA is an American landscape architect, urban designer, and founding principal of Mikyoung Kim Design. Kim has received the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Award and the American Society of Landscape Architects National Design Medal. Her studio was named by Fast Company as one of the world's most innovative architecture firms.

#10832

Mary Hawn

#151521

Overall Influence

Mary T. Hawn is an American surgeon. She is the chair of surgery and the Emile Holman Professor in Surgery at Stanford University. In 2021, Hawn was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine for "being a leading surgeon, educator and health services researcher whose innovative work has built valid measurements for quality care, improved care standards and changed surgical care guidelines."

#10833

Irving Petlin

#50273

Overall Influence

1934 - 2018 (84 years)

Irving Petlin was an American artist and painter renowned for his mastery of the pastel medium and collaborations with other artists and for his work in the "series form" in which he employed the raw materials of pastel, oil paint and unprimed linen, and found inspiration in the work of writers and poets including Primo Levi, Bruno Schulz, Paul Celan, Michael Palmer and Edmond Jabès.

#10834

Shigeru Saito

#175100

Overall Influence

#10835

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Ian Hamilton Finlay

#12667

Overall Influence

1925 - 2006 (81 years)

Ian Hamilton Finlay, CBE was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener. Life Finlay was born in Nassau, Bahamas, to James Hamilton Finlay and his wife, Annie Pettigrew, both of Scots descent. He was educated at Dollar Academy in Clackmannanshire and later at Glasgow School of Art. At the age of 13, with the outbreak of the Second World War, he was evacuated to family in the countryside . In 1942, he joined the British Army. Finlay was married twice and had two children, Alec and Ailie. He died in Edinburgh. He is buried alone in Abercorn Churchyard in West Lothian. The grave lies in the extreme south-east corner of the churchyard.

#10836

Lee A. Wallis

#115709

Overall Influence

Lee Alan Wallis is the South African Head of Emergency Medicine for the Western Cape Government, Professor and Head of the Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University, and the founding President of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine.

#10837

Trevor Williams

#175126

Overall Influence

#10838

Marina Rosenfeld

#135288

Overall Influence

Marina Rosenfeld is an American composer, sound artist and visual artist based in New York City. Her work has been produced and presented by the Park Avenue Armory, Museum of Modern Art, Portikus , Donaueschinger Musiktage, and such international surveys as documenta 14 and the Montreal, Liverpool, PERFORMA, and Whitney biennials, among many others. She has performed widely as an improvising turntablist, and served as co-chair of Music/Sound in the MFA program at the Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College, from 2007 to 2020. She has also taught at Harvard, Yale, Brooklyn College, and Da...

#10839

Jiliang Tang

#173181

Overall Influence

Jiliang Tang is a Chinese-born computer scientist and associate professor at Michigan State University in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, where he is the director of the Data Science and Engineering Lab. His research expertise is in data mining and machine learning.

#10840

Vera Demberg

#173722

Overall Influence

Vera Demberg is a German computational linguist and professor of computer science and computational linguistics at Saarland University. Her research interests include cognitive models of human language comprehension, natural language generation, experimental psycholinguistics, multimodal language processing in a dual-task setting, and experimental and computational discourse research and pragmatics.

#10841

Lucy S. Tompkins

#52526

Overall Influence

Lucy S. Tompkins is a practicing internist, the Lucy Becker Professor of Medicine for infectious diseases at Stanford University, and a professor of microbiology and immunology. Since 1989, she has been the Epidemiologist and Medical Director of the Infection Control and Epidemiology Department for Stanford Hospital. She also has been the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Stanford School of Medicine since 2001. She has been the recipient of multiple fellowships throughout her career, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her current research centers around...

#10842

Kai Zhu

#175225

Overall Influence

#10843

Sytse Douma

#31603

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Sytse Wybren Douma is a Dutch organizational theorist, consultant and Emeritus Professor at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management of the Tilburg University, known for his work with Hein Schreuder on "Economic approaches to organizations".

#10844

Theodore Cyrus Karp

#76371

Overall Influence

1926 - 2015 (89 years)

Theodore Cyrus Karp was an American musicologist. His principal area of study was Secular music, mainly mediaeval monophony, especially the music of the trouvères. He was a major contributor in this area to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

#10845

Ling Liu

#170324

Overall Influence

Ling Liu from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for contributions to scalable Internet data management and decentralized trust management.

#10846

Giovanni Semerano

#42923

Overall Influence

1911 - 2005 (94 years)

Giovanni Semerano was an Italian philologist and linguist who studied the languages of Ancient Mesopotamia. He obtained his degree in Florence, where among his teachers were the Hellenist Ettore Bignone, the philologist Giorgio Pasquali, the semitist Giuseppe Furlani and the linguists Giacomo Devoto and Bruno Migliorini.

#10847

Stephen L. Craig

#161950

Overall Influence

Stephen L. Craig is the William T. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Duke University. He is the director of the Center for Molecularly Optimized Networks, a NSF Center for Chemical Innovation. Career Craig received his B.S. in chemistry from Duke University in 1991. The following year, he completed the M.Phil. in theoretical chemistry at University of Cambridge as a Churchill Scholar. He then began his studies in physical organic chemistry at Stanford University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1997 working with John Brauman. Upon completion of his Ph.D., he spent two years as a research chemist...

#10848

Takao Kobayashi

#175274

Overall Influence

#10849

Barbara Bullock

#84061

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Barbara J. Bullock is an African American painter, collagist, printmaker, soft sculptor and arts instructor. Her works capture African motifs, African and African American culture, spirits, dancing and jazz in abstract and figural forms. She creates three-dimensional collages, portraits, altars and masks in vibrant colors, patterns and shapes. Bullock produces artworks in series with a common theme and style.

#10850

Huda Totonji

#108816

Overall Influence

Huda Ahmad Totonji is an American artist who was born and raised in Saudi Arabia. Totonji is also a master calligrapher and is certified to teach Arabic Calligraphy. In addition to her calligraphic work, she also creates mixed media art, installations and performance art. Totonji is the president of Huda Art, LLC, which creates custom art for clients. Totonji is also the first person from Saudi Arabia to lecture at Harvard University.

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