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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#11051

Michel Bercovier

#100974

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Michel Bercovier is a French-Israeli Professor of Scientific Computing and Computer Aided Design in The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Bercovier is also the head of the School of Computer Science at the Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem.

#11052

Hugo McPherson

#59216

Overall Influence

1921 - 1999 (78 years)

Hugh Archibald McPherson , better known as Hugo McPherson, was a Canadian professor, who served as Canada's Government Film Commissioner from 1967 until 1970. In this position he was the Chairman of the National Film Board of Canada.

#11053

Joanna Hoffmann-Dietrich

#106099

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Dr. Joanna Hoffmann-Dietrich is an artist and academic and a professor at the University of Fine Arts in Poznań in Poland and a Fellow of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland. From 1987 to 1992 Hoffmann-Dietrich studied for her degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań before starting her MA in 1992 and gained her PhD in 2000.

#11054

Kathleen Fontaine

#141718

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Kathleen Fontaine is an adjunct professor of international policy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research areas include ethics, data policy, and applied public policy. Career Born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Fontaine received a BS in physics and astrophysics from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1984. In 2002 she completed her Master of Arts in Science, Technology, and Public Policy from The George Washington University. In 2013 she completed her PhD in Public Policy and Public Administration from Walden University. Fontaine's dissertation topic for her PhD was...

#11055

Norbert Untersteiner

#72889

Overall Influence

1926 - 2012 (86 years)

Norbert Untersteiner was one of the pioneers of modern polar science research, a professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington, and an AAAS Fellow. Born in Merano, Italy, he led the Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment in the early 1970s. In 1979, he formed the Arctic Buoy Program as a contribution to the Global Atmospheric Research Program. He then formed the Polar Science Center at the University of Washington and directed it from 1981 until 1988.

#11056

María Ángeles Gil

#120748

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

María Ángeles Gil Álvarez is a Spanish statistician whose research applies fuzzy mathematics and fuzzy random variables in statistics. She is a professor at the University of Oviedo, in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research and Mathematics Didactics.

#11057

Jean Springer

#81356

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Jean Springer born 12 September 1939 Life Springer was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to parents who were mathematics and physics schoolteachers. She was home-schooled from the age of two until six then attended Wolmer's High School for Girls, and then went on to the University of West Indies at Mona. She initially began studying medicine, but later switched courses and graduated with a B.Sc. in mathematics and physics, achieving "Student of the Year"

#11058

Mary Ann Weitnauer

#118233

Overall Influence

Mary Ann Weitnauer is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Tech, known for her research on optical communication, radar, wireless networks, and smart antennas. Weitnauer graduated from Georgia Tech in 1983, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1989. She joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1989, after completing her doctorate. At Georgia Tech, she was ADVANCE Professor of Engineering from 2006 to 2011.

#11059

Andrew W. Moore

#177382

Overall Influence

#11060

Christopher Knight

#40342

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Christopher Knight is an American art critic for the Los Angeles Times. He was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, after being a three-time finalist . He received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Art Journalism from the Dorothy and Leo Rabkin Foundation in 2020, and the 1997 Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism from the College Art Association, the first journalist to win the award in more than 25 years.

#11061

Frank Bruno

#177413

Overall Influence

#11062

Robert Mercer

#126028

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Robert Leroy Mercer is an American hedge fund manager, computer scientist, and political donor. Mercer was an early artificial intelligence researcher and developer and is the former co-CEO of the hedge fund company Renaissance Technologies.

#11063

Anne Ngu

#177038

Overall Influence

Anne Hee Hiong Ngu is an Australian-American computer scientist known for her research on middleware and quality of service for web services and the Internet of things. She is a professor of computer science at Texas State University.

#11064

Elizabeth McGovern

Elizabeth McGovern

#53126

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Elizabeth Lee McGovern is a British-American actress. She has received many awards, including a Screen Actors Guild Award, three Golden Globe Award nominations, and one Academy Award nomination. Born in Evanston, Illinois, McGovern spent most of her early life in Los Angeles. After attending the American Conservatory Theater and the Juilliard School, she made her feature film debut in Ordinary People . For her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the musical film Ragtime , she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She subsequently had lead roles in a number of major stu...

#11065

Shabaana Khader

#58868

Overall Influence

Shabaana A. Khader is an Indian-American microbiologist who is the Bernard and Betty Roizman Professor of Microbiology at the University of Chicago. She is also the Chair of the Department of Microbiology. In an effort to design new vaccines and therapeutic strategies, Khader studies host-pathogen interactions in infectious disease.

#11066

Clare Bryant

#82578

Overall Influence

Clare Bryant FLSW is a British veterinary scientist and clinical pharmacologist who is a professor at the University of Cambridge. She specialises in innate immunity. Bryant is a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge and of the British Pharmacological Society.

#11067

Patrick James

#86098

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Patrick James , is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, and Director of the USC Center for International Studies. Education James received his B.A. with honours in history at the University of Western Ontario in 1978, and a Ph.D in government and politics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1984.

#11068

François Pierrot

François Pierrot

#106489

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

François Pierrot is director of research in The Montpellier Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics, and Microelectronics . Biography Former student at the Mechanical Engineering Department of École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, holding a PhD in Automatic Control from the Montpellier 2 University, Dr. François Pierrot now serves as a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research in the LIRMM. For more than 15 years, he has been working to create new robots considering simultaneously mechanical design and control strategies, on theoretical aspects as well as in close cooperation with industrial partners in the fields of industry, health and education.

#11069

Robert Gehlmann Bone

#73219

Overall Influence

1906 - 1991 (85 years)

Robert Gehlmann Bone was the ninth president of Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. He was renowned for his leadership experience and welcoming nature. Bone became a staple of the Illinois State University culture by representing friendliness and generosity. He is memorialized on campus through the Hand of Friendship, a small stone statue dedicated to his time at the University. During Bone's presidency, the University grew from a small teacher's college into a large multidisciplinary university. Bone was able to gain funding for the development of residence halls, thus allowing more students to attend the school.

#11070

Mads Græsbøll Christensen

Mads Græsbøll Christensen

#176487

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Mads Græsbøll Christensen is a Danish Professor in Audio Processing at Department of Architecture, Design & Media Technology, Aalborg University, where he is also head and founder of the Audio Analysis Lab which conducts research in audio and acoustic signal processing. Before that he worked at the Department of Electronic Systems at Aalborg University and has held visiting positions at Philips Research Labs, ENST, UCSB, and Columbia University. He has published extensively on these topics in books, scientific journals and conference proceedings, and he has given tutorials and keynote talks a...

#11071

Clement Freud

#46176

Overall Influence

1924 - 2009 (85 years)

Sir Clement Raphael Freud was a German-born British broadcaster, writer, politician and chef. The son of Ernst L. Freud and grandson of Sigmund Freud, Clement moved to the United Kingdom from Nazi Germany as a child and later worked as a prominent chef and food writer. He became known to a wider audience as a television and radio personality. Freud was the longest serving panellist on the BBC Radio 4 panel show Just a Minute, appearing in each of the first 143 episodes, and making subsequent regular appearances up until his death in 2009. He was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament in 19...

#11072

Robert P. Wagner

#105898

Overall Influence

1918 - 2004 (86 years)

Robert Philip Wagner was an American professor of genetics who spent most of his academic career at the University of Texas at Austin. After retiring from academics, he served as a long-term consultant for the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He wrote a number of key textbooks in genetics and was known as an enthusiastic early proponent of the Human Genome Project.

#11073

Sanjeev K Gupta

#177557

Overall Influence

#11074

Andreas Voss

#177562

Overall Influence

#11075

Bernard Cohen

#80753

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Bernard Cohen is a British painter. He is regarded as one of the leading British abstract artists of his time. Biography Bernard Cohen studied at Central Saint Martins School of Art in London between 1950-1951, followed by the Slade School of Art from 1954-1956. In 1957 Cohen received the Boise Traveling Scholarship and together with the French Government Scholarship awarded to him in 1954, he was able to travel and work in France, Spain and Italy. Following various teaching positions throughout the 60s and 70s at Ealing School of Art, the Slade, Chelsea College of Art & Design, the Royal Co...

#11076

Choong Eui Song

#171302

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Choong Eui Song is a South Korean organic chemist. Biography Song was born and raised in Seoul. He received his B.S. degree from Chung-Ang University in 1980, and received a diploma and a Ph.D. at RWTH Aachen University in Germany.

#11077

Trisha Donnelly

#81186

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Trisha Donnelly is a contemporary artist who is particularly well known as a conceptual artist. Donnelly works with various media including photography, drawing, audio, video, sculpture and performance. Donnelly is also a Clinical Associate Professor of Studio Art at New York University. She currently lives and works in San Francisco, California.

#11078

Holly Witteman

#171889

Overall Influence

Holly Witteman is a health informatics researcher. She is a Full Professor in the Department of Family & Emergency Medicine at the Université Laval, in Quebec City, Canada. Witteman is the Canada Research Chair in Human-Centred Digital Health .

#11079

Arturo Azcorra

#123303

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Arturo Azcorra is a Spanish scientist and telecommunications engineer who is recognized as a pioneer of internet and network science research in Spain, as well as a promoter of telematics as a scientific and academic discipline born from the integration of telecommunications and informatics.

#11080

Myrna Combellack

#61645

Overall Influence

Myrna May Combellack is a British academic researcher and writer of the Institute of Cornish Studies , translator of Beunans Meriasek and author of several works of fiction. Early life She graduated in English from the University of York in 1971.

#11081

Andre Francis Palmer

#84924

Overall Influence

Andre Francis Palmer is an American engineer who is the Associate Dean for research in the College of Engineering and the Fenburr Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Ohio State University. He is an expert on hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers and biomaterials used in transfusion medicine.

#11082

David Rosenthal

#177662

Overall Influence

#11083

Haimei Zheng

#145856

Overall Influence

Haimei Zheng is a Chinese-American materials scientist who is a senior scientist in Materials Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is an adjunct professor in Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research considers the nucleation, nanoscale materials transformations, and dynamic phenomena at solid-liquid interfaces, which she studies by developing the advanced in situ electron microscopy techniques. She is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society.

#11084

Aaron Bohrod

#63898

Overall Influence

1907 - 1992 (85 years)

Aaron Bohrod was an American artist best known for his trompe-l'œil still-life paintings. Education Bohrod was born in Chicago in 1907, the son of an emigree Bessarabian-Jewish grocer. Bohrod studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York between 1926 and 1930. While at the Art Students League, Bohrod was influenced by John Sloan and chose themes that involved his own surroundings.

#11085

Thea D. Hodge

#103751

Overall Influence

1922 - 2008 (86 years)

Thea Drell Hodge was a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and a cofounder of the Minneapolis chapter of the Association for Women in Computing. Hodge was a pioneer for women in computer science and mentored many women in the field.

#11086

Roddy Schrock

#159873

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Roderick Schrock is an arts executive and curator. He has been the Executive Director at Eyebeam since July, 2015. Biography Schrock received an MFA in electronic music and recording media from Mills College, and a certificate in sonology from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague as well as a certificate in Non-Profit Management from Harvard University.

#11087

Michael Schlüter

#177706

Overall Influence

#11088

Sitaram Chaturvedi

#35169

Overall Influence

1907 - 2005 (98 years)

Pt. Sitaram Chaturvedi , also known as Acharya Sita Ram Chaturvedi, was an eminent Indian educator, dramatist and scholar of Hindi and Sanskrit language and literature. Biography Chaturvedi was born in a renowned Brahmin family in Varanasi, India. His father Pandit Bhimsen Vedpathi Chaturvedi was a learned Sanskrit scholar of Vedic studies. He received his graduate and post-graduate education from Benaras Hindu University and later served as a professor at the university.

#11089

Pui-Kuen Yeung

#137887

Overall Influence

Pui-Kuen Yeung is an engineer and academic. Education Yeung earned his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering followed by a Master of Philosophy in 1984, both from the University of Hong Kong. He then went on to do his PhD at Cornell University under Stephen B. Pope. His work culminated with the publication of his thesis titled "A Study of Lagrangian Statistics in Stationary Isotropic Turbulence Using Direct Numerical Simulations" in 1989.

#11090

Yoichi Ochiai

#177599

Overall Influence

1987 - Present (39 years)

Yoichi Ochiai is a Japanese academic and media artist. He has a doctorate from the University of Tokyo. He is also an associate professor at the University of Tsukuba Library, as well as an Information and Media Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Digital Nature Development and Research. Specially-appointed professor at Digital Hollywood University, visiting professor at Osaka University of Arts and Kyoto City University of Arts, Visiting Professor at Kanazawa College of Art.

#11091

Janice Lourie

#72590

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Janice Richmond "Jan" Lourie is an American computer scientist and graphic artist. In the late 1960s she was a pioneer in CAD/CAM for the textile industry. She is best known for inventing a set of software tools that facilitate the textile production stream from artist to manufacturer. For the Graphical Design Of Textiles process she was granted IBM's first software patent. Other projects, in differing disciplines, share the focus on graphic representation. She returns throughout an ongoing career to the stacked two-dimensional tabular arrays of textiles and computer graphics, and the topolo...

#11092

Steven Swanson

#177747

Overall Influence

#11093

Xanthippi Markenscoff

#109184

Overall Influence

Xanthippi Markenscoff is a Greek-American mechanical engineer specializing in the dynamics of defects and dislocations in materials, including Eshelby's inclusion; other topics in her research have included grasping and fixturing, and the relation between strain and natural frequency. She is a distinguished professor emerita in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.

#11094

Christian Gross

#177771

Overall Influence

#11095

Anton Lehmden

#36597

Overall Influence

1929 - 2018 (89 years)

Anton Lehmden was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Lehmden was a co-founder, together with Ernst Fuchs, Maître Leherb , Rudolf Hausner, Arik Brauer, Fritz Janschka and Wolfgang Hutter, of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. He settled in Vienna after 1945 and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

#11096

Ján Tkáč

#177078

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Ján Tkáč in Poprad is a Slovak chemist known for being the first Slovak scientist based in Slovakia to receive the European Research Council grant. Tkáč got his PhD in Chemistry in 2000 at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. Following his graduation, he shortly worked at the Slovak Academy of Sciences and then abroad at Linköping University , Lund University and at Oxford . In 2012, he returned to the Slovak Academy of Sciences with a European Research Council grant.

#11097

Gang Niu

#177804

Overall Influence

#11098

Ana Rodriguez

#159622

Overall Influence

Ana Rodriguez is a parasitologist and Professor in the Department of Microbiology at New York University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on Plasmodium falciparum and Trypanosoma cruzi and she is known for her work on Plasmodium liver infection, Plasmodium immunity, and T. cruzi drug development.

#11099

Richard E Clark

#177822

Overall Influence

#11100

Andréa Tommasi

#174512

Overall Influence

Andréa Tommasi is a geoscientist from Brazil known for her research on geodynamics and terrestrial deformation. She is a recipient of the CNRS silver medal and an elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

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