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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#11251

Gerrit Broekstra

#73944

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Gerrit Broekstra , is a Dutch scientist and professor in the field of organization behavior and systems sciences at the Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam, Northwestern University, Chicago, and Nyenrode Business University in the Netherlands.

#11252

Masayuki Fujita

#171063

Overall Influence

Masayuki Fujita is an electrical engineer at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan. Fujita was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for his contributions to passivity-based control in robotics and robust control.

#11253

Lenore Zuck

#178092

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Lenore D. Zuck is an Israeli-American computer scientist whose research involves formal methods in software engineering, as well as information privacy. She is a research professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Chicago.

#11254

James Carpenter

#49364

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

James Carpenter is an American light artist and designer. Life He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in sculpture in 1972. He studied with Dale Chihuly. He works at James Carpenter Design Associates. Carpenter was selected to design new public spaces and visitor amenities for the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

#11255

Stefan Gierowski

#41254

Overall Influence

1925 - 2022 (97 years)

Stefan Gierowski was a Polish painter and an avant garde artist of post-war Poland. For many years he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where he earned numerous distinctions. He abandoned representational and realist painting midway through the 1950s and devoted himself entirely to abstract and optical effects. Acknowledging the concreteness of materials and colors, the artist, by his own admission, is mostly intrigued by the dual nature of light, how light is enclosed within a painting and yet somehow escapes it. According to the artist, each painting has a structure and...

#11256

Benjamin Nagengast

#170196

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Benjamin Nagengast is a German educational psychologist. He has been Full Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Tübingen, Germany, since November 2012. He has been vice-director of LEAD Graduate School & Research Network since 2012, and vice-director of Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology at Tübingen University since 2014.

#11257

Jerry McDaniel

#84550

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Jerry W. McDaniel is an American heterogeneous artist; graphics artist, illustrator, communication designer, educator and modernist painter. He distinguished himself by doing advertising work for numerous large corporations , creating posters, doing book and magazine illustrations, and influencing numerous students of advertising and communication design. In parallel with his commercial career he was a prolific multimedia artist, painting in acrylic and in watercolor, in various fields such as landscape, portraits, sports, and political graphics. He also designed sports stamps. He was one of ...

#11258

Katrina Ray

#142731

Overall Influence

Katrina Ray is a biologist and the chief editor of Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology. Education Ray has a bachelor's degree in microbiology from the University of Manchester and a PhD from Imperial College London where she studied Shigella flexneri.

#11259

Peter Dixon

#179421

Overall Influence

#11260

Bing Yan

#179422

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#11261

Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza Sánchez

#69311

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza Sánchez is a professor of informatics at the University of the Basque Country. In 1981, she began her work as a lecturer at the Faculty of Informatics of Donostia. As a specialist in language and computer technology, she has held positions of responsibility in Basque technology institutions.

#11262

Ang Cui

#175183

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Ang Cui is an American cybersecurity researcher and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Red Balloon Security in New York City, a cybersecurity firm that develops new technologies to defend embedded systems against exploitation.

#11263

Ana Flávia Nogueira

#177140

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Ana Flávia Nogueira is a Brazilian chemist who is a Full Professor at the State University of Campinas since 2004. Her research considers nanostructured materials for solar energy conversion. She was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Science in 2022.

#11264

Bill Brown

#61682

Overall Influence

Bill Brown is the Karla Scherer distinguished service professor in American culture at the University of Chicago, where he teaches in the department of English language and literature, the department of visual arts, and the college. He previously held the Edward Carson Waller distinguished service professorship in humanities and the George M. Pullman professorship, and served as the chair of the University's English language and literature department from 2006-2008. After a brief term as the deputy dean for academic and research initiatives in the division of the humanities, Brown was recruited to be the new deputy provost for the arts in 2014.

#11265

Fab Five Freddy

#59309

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Fred Brathwaite , more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American visual artist, filmmaker, and hip hop pioneer. He is considered one of the architects of the street art movement. Freddy emerged in New York's downtown underground creative scene in the late 1970s as a graffiti artist. He was the bridge between the burgeoning uptown rap scene and the downtown No Wave art scene. He was immortalized in 1981 when Debbie Harry rapped on the Blondie song "Rapture" that "Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody's fly." In the late 1980s, Freddy became the first host of the groundbreaking hip-hop music vide...

#11266

Masayuki Tanimoto

#179462

Overall Influence

Masayuki Tanimoto is an electrical engineer from Nagoya University, Japan. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for his contributions to the development of free viewpoint television and its MPEG standard.

#11267

Akan Williams

#93369

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Akan Williams is a Nigerian academic, professor of analytical/environmental chemistry, and 6th vice-chancellor of the Covenant University. Prior to succeeding AAA Atayero as Vice-Chancellor, he was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Head, Department of Chemistry, Covenant University.

#11268

Barbara van Schewick

#112845

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Barbara van Schewick is a German computer scientist and legal scholar who holds a professorship in Internet law at Stanford Law School. Life Van Schewick studied computer science at the Technical University of Berlin and law at the Free University of Berlin. After her first state law examination, she initially worked as a lawyer in Berlin, working, among other things, at a management consultancy and as a speechwriter for the then-Governing Mayor Eberhard Diepgen. After her second state law examination, she was the first residential fellow at Lawrence Lessig's newly founded Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University for 15 months.

#11269

Michael Reiss

#179490

Overall Influence

#11270

Thomas Christensen

#179491

Overall Influence

#11271

Henry Ponder

#85030

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (98 years)

Henry Ponder is a U.S. educator. Ponder received his undergraduate, masters, and doctorate degree from Langston University, Oklahoma State University, Ohio State University. He went on to serve as the president of Talladega College, Benedict College, and Fisk University.

#11272

Rob Latham

#93794

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Rob Latham is a former professor of English at the University of California, Riverside and a science fiction critic. Career Latham was an English professor at the University of Iowa and the University of California, Riverside.

#11273

James Veneris

#25523

Overall Influence

1922 - 2004 (82 years)

James George Veneris was an American soldier during the Korean War who was captured by the Chinese and was one of 21 American soldiers at the end of the war who decided they would rather stay in China than return to the United States.

#11274

Myriam Charpentier

#86233

Overall Influence

Myriam Charpentier is a molecular biologist, who specialises in cell and developmental biology at the John Innes Centre, Norwich. Charpentier studies the environmental and biological stimulus of nuclear calcium signalling in plants.

#11275

Nadine Gogolla

#168349

Overall Influence

Nadine Gogolla is a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, Germany as well as an Associate Faculty of the Graduate School for Systemic Neuroscience. Gogolla investigates the neural circuits underlying emotion to understand how the brain integrates external cues, feeling states, and emotions to make calculated behavioral decisions. Gogolla is known for her discovery using machine learning and two-photon microscopy to classify mouse facial expressions into emotion-like categories and correlate these facial expressions with neural activity in the insular...

#11276

William H. T. Bush

#35549

Overall Influence

1938 - 2018 (80 years)

William Henry Trotter Bush, CStJ was an American banker and businessman. A scion of the Bush family, he was the youngest son of US Senator Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush, the youngest brother of former President George H. W. Bush, and an uncle of former President George W. Bush and former Florida governor Jeb Bush.

#11277

German Kim

#44386

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

German Nikolaevich Kim is Director of the Institute for Asian Studies at Al-Farabi University, Kazakhstan and one of the leading internationally recognized scholars on ethnic Koreans in the former Soviet Union: Koryo-saram.

#11278

Charlie White

#74886

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Charlie White is an American artist and academic. White received his BFA in 1994 from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and received his MFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, in 1998. He held the position of professor at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles from 2003 to 2016. Since mid-2016 White has held the positions of professor and Head of School at the Carnegie Mellon School of Art.

#11279

Geoffrey Lilley

#95283

Overall Influence

1919 - 2015 (96 years)

Geoffrey Michael Lilley was an aeronautical scientist known for his work on jet engine noise reduction. His pioneering work led to him being known as the 'father of aeroacoustics', and he played a key role in the development of Concorde.

#11280

Fábio Kon

#179566

Overall Influence

Fabio Kon is an ex-member of Open Source Initiative and a full professor of the department of computer science of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is the primary contact for the University of São Paulo FLOSS Competence Center.

#11281

Morten Andersen

#179589

Overall Influence

#11282

Gregory Zacharewicz

#170720

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Gregory Zacharewicz is Full Professor at École des mines d'Alès in Alès, France. He recently joined the LGI2P laboratory in 2018 to develop research based on simulation. He was previously Associate Professor at the University of Bordeaux , where he conducted research on modeling, interoperability and simulation of business and social organization. He worked with Bruno Vallespir and Guy Doumeingts and under the direction of Claudia Frydman and Norbert Giambiasi.

#11283

Jean Van Heijenoort

#179612

Overall Influence

#11284

Deborah Willis

#30406

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Deborah Willis is a contemporary African-American artist, photographer, curator of photography, photographic historian, author, and educator. Among her awards and honors, she is a 2000 MacArthur Fellow. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts of New York University.

#11285

Sebastian Wolf

#179620

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

#11286

Sonia Gechtoff

#52432

Overall Influence

1926 - 2018 (92 years)

Sonia Gechtoff was an American abstract expressionist painter. Her primary medium was painting but she also created drawings and prints. Early life and education Sonia Gechtoff was born in Philadelphia to Ethel and Leonid Gechtoff. Her mother managed art galleries, including her own East and West gallery located at 3108 Fillmore Street in San Francisco. Her father was a highly successful genre artist from Odessa, Ukraine. He introduced his daughter to painting and "had [her] sit beside him at his easel with a brush and paints and beginning at age six he was there to spur [her] on".

#11287

Yasamin Mostofi

#154648

Overall Influence

Yasamin Mostofi is an Iranian-American Scientist and a Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara. Yasamin’s research is multi-disciplinary, expanding wireless communications, sensing, and control/robotics.

#11288

Hanna Jubran

#85330

Overall Influence

Hanna Jubran is a Palestinian Arab Israeli sculptor, born in Jish, the upper Galilee. His work addresses the concepts of time, movement, balance and space. Each sculpture occupies and creates its own reality influenced by its immediate surroundings. The work does not rely on one media to evoke the intended response, but takes advantage of compatible materials such as, wood, granite, steel, iron and bronze.

#11289

Moshe Lazar

#91084

Overall Influence

1928 - 2012 (84 years)

Moshe Lazar Lazar received his M.A. in 1951 from Hebrew University and his Ph.D. from the Sorbonne in 1957. He also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Judaism in 1990 and an Orden del Mérito Civil from the consul general of Spain in 1993, and was awarded the Raubenheimer Outstanding Senior Faculty Award by USC in 2003.

#11290

Tsutomu Ōhashi

#14658

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Tsutomu Ōhashi is a Japanese agricultural scientist, composer, and record producer. He is also known by his pseudonym, Shoji Yamashiro. Early life Born in Tochigi Prefecture, he attended Tohoku University and graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture. He received a Doctorate of Agriculture.

#11291

Paul Marshall

#179673

Overall Influence

#11292

William Couldwell

William Couldwell

#113514

Overall Influence

William T. Couldwell is a Canadian neurosurgeon who is professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Utah, a position he assumed in 2001. Career Couldwell is currently on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Neurosurgery, Chairman 2007-2008AANSABNS

#11293

Kerstin Eckert

#179683

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Kerstin Eckert is a scientist. She is the head of the new Chair of Transport Processes at Interfaces, a combined chair of Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and TU Dresden created in October 2016.

#11294

Thomas Keller

#179686

Overall Influence

#11295

David F. Bacon

#179689

Overall Influence

#11296

Edward Timms

#37716

Overall Influence

1937 - 2018 (81 years)

Edward Timms OBE, FBA was Research Professor and a former director of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at University of Sussex. His work mainly focused on Karl Kraus and Freud. Timms was also a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge His two-volume work Karl Kraus – Apocalyptic Satirist is concerned with Kraus's satirical responses to Hapsburg Vienna, his rejection of both the First World War and Nazism. Kraus had been the subject of his PhD.

#11297

Thomas Nelson Winter

#75525

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Thomas Nelson Winter was an American associate professor of Greek in Classics and Religious Studies at University of Nebraska at Lincoln and former president of the Unitarian Church of Lincoln. Education From 1968, Winter holds his PhD in Classics at Northwestern University, Chicago, with the thesis Apology as prosecution: the trial of Apuleius.

#11298

Marcia Tucker

#48980

Overall Influence

1940 - 2006 (66 years)

Marcia Tucker was an American art historian, art critic and curator. In 1977 she founded the New Museum of Contemporary Art, a museum dedicated to innovative art and artistic practice in New York City, which she ran as the director until 1999.

#11299

Amitava Datta

#103190

Overall Influence

Amitava Datta is an Indian scientist working in the area of high energy physics, especially in context of new physics through direct and indirect . Career He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in 1969 from the Scottish Church College under the University of Calcutta, and MSc and PhD degrees in physics from Visva Bharati in 1971 and 1977, respectively. He joined Jadavpur University as a lecturer in 1981 and was subsequently promoted to professor in 1998. In 2008, he moved to the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata as a professor. He held Visiting Positions at Fermi...

#11300

Victoria Interrante

#178762

Overall Influence

Victoria Lynn Interrante is an American computer scientist specializing in computer graphics, scientific computing, and virtual environments. She is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Minnesota, a founder of the annual ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, and co-editor-in-chief of the journal ACM Transactions on Applied Perception.

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