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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#11301

Majeed Hayat

#179739

Overall Influence

Majeed Hayat from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2014 for contributions to the modeling of impact ionization and noise in avalanche-photodiode devices.

#11302

Thomas Kühne

#179762

Overall Influence

#11303

William H. Bailey

#64564

Overall Influence

1930 - 2020 (90 years)

William H. Bailey was an American artist and university professor. He was the Kingman Brewster Professor Emeritus of Art at Yale University. He is best known as a contemporary realist painter. Early life Bailey was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

#11304

David Hayes

#58838

Overall Influence

1931 - 2013 (82 years)

David Vincent Hayes was an American sculptor. Life Hayes received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1953, and a M.F.A. degree from Indiana University in 1955 where he studied with David Smith.

#11305

Andrew Lloyd

#179769

Overall Influence

#11306

Yong Soon Min

#93074

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Yong Soon Min is a Korean-born American artist, curator, and educator. She serves as professor emeritus at University of California, Irvine. Her artwork deals with issues including Korean-American identity, politics, personal narrative, and culture. Min has been active in New York City and Los Angeles.

#11307

Zhihong Liu

#179778

Overall Influence

#11308

Arindam Banerjee

#179779

Overall Influence

#11309

David Levy

#179782

Overall Influence

#11310

Blu

#27249

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Blu is the pseudonym of an Italian artist who conceals his real identity. He was born in Senigallia. He lives in Bologna and has been active in street art since 1999. Places Central and South America Blu's nomadic spirit peaked in 2005. From the end of that year, Blu spent most of his time jumping from place to place in self-guided travels, linking his itineraries to the festivals to which he was invited. During that time, he collaborated with Ericailcane and several artists from Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Honduras in a festival in Managua called "Murales de Octubre." During the f...

#11311

David McCarthy

#179317

Overall Influence

David McCarthy is a civil engineer, urban hydrologist, and an academic. He is an associate professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Queensland University of Technology. He is the founder of the Environmental and Public Health Microbiology Laboratory and the BoSL Water Monitoring and Control lab, both at Monash University. His research interests span the field of integrated water management, with a particular focus on urban hydrology, stormwater harvesting and reuse, and green water technologies.

#11312

Bill Nelson

#61554

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

William Nelson is an English singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer, painter, video artist, writer and experimental musician. He rose to prominence as the chief songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of the rock group Be-Bop Deluxe, which he formed in 1972. Nelson has been described as "one of the most underrated guitarists of the seventies art rock movement". In 2015, he was recognised with the Visionary award at the Progressive Music Awards.

#11313

Betsy L. Cooper

#179799

Overall Influence

#11314

Adam Pease

#135367

Overall Influence

#11315

Roy David Williams

#112802

Overall Influence

Roy David Williams is a physicist and data scientist. He is a professor at Caltech and is most known for his work with the LIGO, and VOTable and VOEvent standards. He is a proponent of open data. Selected research Fox, Geoffrey C., Roy D. Williams, and Paul C. Messina. Parallel computing works!. Elsevier, 2014.Giavalisco, M., et al. "The great observatories origins deep survey: initial results from optical and near-infrared imaging." The Astrophysical Journal Letters 600.2 : L93.Williams, Roy D. "Performance of dynamic load balancing algorithms for unstructured mesh calculations." Concurrency:...

#11316

Suresh Chandra

#179843

Overall Influence

#11317

Ted V. Shaneyfelt

#157350

Overall Influence

Ted V. Shaneyfelt is an American Computer Scientist and engineer known for producing the user interface on the first dual-mode cellular telephone to be commercially deployed in North America. Life In 1986, the University of Hawaii at Hilo awarded Ted Shaneyfelt their first Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. He received his Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering specializing in free space optical computing in 1995 from the University of California, San Diego. In private industry, Shaneyfelt worked at ASI, Hughes Network Systems, Sony Electronics Inc., MCSI, and POH. He completed his Ph.D.

#11318

Wei Wang

#172282

Overall Influence

Wei Wang is a Chinese-born American computer scientist. She is the Leonard Kleinrock Chair Professor in Computer Science and Computational Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles and the director of the Scalable Analytics Institute . Her research specializes in big data analytics and modeling, database systems, natural language processing, bioinformatics and computational biology, and computational medicine.

#11319

Anthony TS Ho

#168390

Overall Influence

Prof. Anthony TS Ho FIET, FInstP, FBCS, CEng, CPhys is a British computer scientist and Professor of Multimedia Security at the University of Surrey. Biography Anthony TS Ho received his PhD in Digital Image Processing at King's College London in 1983. He was awarded an MSc in Applied Optics at Imperial College in 1980. Prior to that, he graduated with a BSc in Physical Electronics from Newcastle Polytechnic in 1979. From 1994 to 2015, he was a Senior Lecturer, then Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He moved to the University of Surrey in 2006 as Professor of Multimedia Security, and was Head of the Department of Computer Science from 2010 until 2015.

#11320

Shigeru Chiba

#179867

Overall Influence

#11321

Madhav Sadashiv Gore

#71948

Overall Influence

1921 - 2010 (89 years)

Madhav Sadashiv Gore was an Indian social scientist, writer, academic and the chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He was the Director of Tata Institute of Social Sciences , the vice-chancellor of the University of Mumbai and a recipient of the Life Time Achievement Award of Indian Sociological Society.

#11322

Christian Moeller

#49249

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Christian Moeller is a sculpture and installation artist, professor and Chair of the Department of Design Media Arts at University of California, Los Angeles UCLA He was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany where he lived and worked until moving to the United States in 2001. His interactive work has been shown at museums, galleries and art festivals internationally. Many more recent works can be seen as urban scale objects and installations in public spaces.

#11323

Tatiana Segura

#178597

Overall Influence

Tatiana Segura is an American biomedical engineer who is a professor at Duke University. Her research considers biomedical engineering solutions to promote cell growth. She was elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2017 and awarded the Acta Biomaterialia Silver Medal in 2021.

#11324

Adam Cheng

#179885

Overall Influence

#11325

Naehyuck Chang

#135255

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Naehyuck Chang is a Professor of electrical engineering at KAIST, Seoul, Korea. Chang obtained his BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the Department of Control and Instrumentation at Seoul National University, of which he later became faculty member and later served as Vice Dean of its College of Engineering. In 2012, Chang was elected as chair of a Special Interest Group within the Association for Computing Machinery.

#11326

Lorna Thorpe

#170287

Overall Influence

Lorna E. Thorpe is an American epidemiologist who is a professor and Director of the Division of Epidemiology at NYU Langone Health. She serves as Vice Chair of Strategy and Planning in the Department of Population Health and on the Board of the American College of Epidemiology.

#11327

Stanley Block

#36306

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Stanley Block, Ph.D., CFA, is an Emeritus Professor of Finance at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. He is best known as coauthor with Geoffrey Hirt of numerous books in finance, including Foundations of Financial Management and Fundamentals of Investment Management. The first-mentioned text has sold over a million copies.

#11328

Arun K Shukla

#179907

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

#11329

Joseph Bernstein

#179918

Overall Influence

#11330

Roger Ferriter

#97100

Overall Influence

1932 - 2015 (83 years)

Roger Ferriter was an American graphic designer. He is known as the progenitor of the L'eggs name, logo and packaging design . Personal life Ferriter was born in Cranston, Rhode Island. He was a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps and later played minor league baseball for the Boston Red Sox.

#11331

Micol Hebron

#98042

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Micol Hebron is an American interdisciplinary artist, curator, and associate professor at Chapman University, located in Southern California. Hebron critically examines and employs modes of feminist activism in art.

#11332

Chris Drury

#58975

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Chris Drury is a British environmental artist. His body of work includes ephemeral assemblies of natural materials, land art in the mode associated with Andy Goldsworthy, as well as more permanent landscape art, works on paper and indoor installations. He also works in 3D sculpture.

#11333

Catherine Coleman

#179947

Overall Influence

#11334

Fred Wright

#118540

Overall Influence

George A. "Fred" Wright is the Associate Laboratory Director and Principal Research Engineer of the Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. In 2008, Dr. Wright founded a cyber security incubator, which led to the formation of CTISL in 2010. Since its inception the “Cyber Lab” has seen explosive growth with nearly $80M in annual research awards and 300 people in 2017. The Lab focuses on development and integration of security technologies into Government and industry enterprises. His research has focused in a variety of technical areas, in...

#11335

Jean Brenchley

#95032

Overall Influence

1944 - 2019 (75 years)

Jean E. Brenchley was an American microbiologist and a professor at the Pennsylvania State University and Purdue University. Early life Jean Elnora Brenchley was born in Towanda, Pennsylvania, as the daughter of J. Edward Brenchley and Elizabeth Jefferson Brenchley. "My love of microorganisms started while growing up on a small dairy farm in Pennsylvania" she recalled later in life. As a high school student in Canton, Pennsylvania, Brenchley won a regional science fair competition, with a project about the way Myxomycetes slime mold reacts to light.

#11336

Mitra Hartmann

#82670

Overall Influence

Mitra J.Z. Hartmann is a professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering at the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. She specializes in robotics, sensory acquisition behaviors, sensorimotor integration, and neuroethology. Her lab focuses on translating sensory signals felt by whiskers to robotics.

#11337

David Tiller

#87567

Overall Influence

David J. Tiller AO is an Australian Professor of Medicine and past President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians . Education Tiller attended All Saint's College in NSW before attending the University of Sydney. Tiller graduated for the University of Sydney in 1964 with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery after previously studying Pharmacy, and was made a fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians in 1967.

#11338

George Morrison

George Morrison

#77613

Overall Influence

1919 - 2000 (81 years)

George Morrison was an Ojibwe abstract painter and sculptor from Minnesota. His Ojibwe name was Wah Wah Teh Go Nay Ga Bo . Morrison's work is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement in the United States.

#11339

Howard McCalebb

#62955

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Howard McCalebb is an American abstract sculptor. Early life and education He received his M.F.A. in sculpture from Cornell University in 1972, and his B.A. in sculpture from California State University, Hayward in 1970. In 1971, he participated in the Hobart School of Welding Technology, 5th Annual Sculpture Workshop in Troy, Ohio.

#11340

Donald George Vogl

#95606

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Donald George Vogl is a prolific artist and retired art professor from the University of Notre Dame. His art is on display in permanent collections at Notre Dame's Snite Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Midwest Museum of American Art-Elkhart, Haggerty Museum of Marquette University Milwaukee, Brauer Museum at Valparaiso University, Blank Center for the Arts in Michigan City, and South Bend Museum of Art. He's listed in Who's Who in American Art 1988-2010.

#11341

Kristin Yvonne Rozier

#114661

Overall Influence

Kristin Yvonne Rozier is an American aerospace engineer and computer scientist whose research investigates formal methods including temporal logic and model checking for the formal verification of safety-critical systems, especially those involving air transport, unmanned aerial vehicles, and air traffic control. She is Black & Veatch Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mathematics at Iowa State University, where she heads the Laboratory for Temporal Logic.

#11342

Peter Schnell

#164856

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Peter M. Schnell is a German computer scientist, founder of Software AG and long-time chairman of the Vorstand, executive board. Life He grew up in Alsbach-Hähnlein near Darmstadt. Schnell was impressed by the IBM 650, the first commercial mainframe computer that Alwin Walther had procured for Technische Universität Darmstadt . He then studied physics and mathematics at TU Darmstadt. In 1965 he graduated with a diplom in mathematics under Walther. Already as a student he gave courses in programming languages and worked as a freelance programmer for Euratom and at the German Computer Center in...

#11343

Amitava Datta

#180121

Overall Influence

#11344

Graham Dixon-Lewis

#129348

Overall Influence

1922 - 2010 (88 years)

Graham Dixon-Lewis, MA, DPhil, FRS was a British combustion engineer. Early life Dixon-Lewis was born Graham Lewis in Caerleon, Monmouthshire, the first of two children of Daniel Watson Lewis and Eleanor Jane Lewis . The family name was changed to Dixon-Lewis by deed poll in 1944. He was educated at Newport High School and read chemistry at Jesus College, Oxford, from 1940 to 1944. He earned a DPhil in 1948, and studied with John Wilfrid Linnett.

#11345

Eugene Marion Klaaren

#46500

Overall Influence

1937 - 2015 (78 years)

Eugene Marion Klaaren was a historian and professor of religion. He held a BA from Hope College, an MA from Emory University, a BD from Western Theological Seminary, and a PHD from Harvard University. He then became an Emeritus Professor of Wesleyan University. His book Religious Origins of Modern Science: Belief in Creation in Seventeenth-Century Thought remains "an important one. It is written in a scholarly and fairly dense style but is also accessible to non-specialists." His Religious Origins book is based on his PhD thesis: "Belief in creation and the rise of modern science a study...

#11346

Peter Jepsen

#180176

Overall Influence

#11347

Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek

#161546

Overall Influence

Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek is an electronics engineer specializing in digital filters. Originally from Yugoslavia, she works in Mexico as a professor and researcher at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics in Puebla.

#11348

Sue Jones

#75110

Overall Influence

Susan Jones is a British computational biologist and bioinformatics group leader at the James Hutton Institute. Her work is specially focused on plant pathogen diagnostics, particularly virus diagnostics, using large datasets of RNA-Seq data. She also works on functional genomics, transcription regulation, protein-protein and protein-nucleic-acid interactions.,

#11349

Penny Rheingans

Penny Rheingans

#173285

Overall Influence

Penny L. Rheingans is an American computer scientist specializing in information visualization, including methods for non-photorealistic rendering of volumetric data and for visualizing uncertainty in data. She is a professor of computer science at the University of Maine, where she directs the School of Computing and Information Science.

#11350

Daniel Goodman

#76130

Overall Influence

1945 - 2012 (67 years)

Daniel Goodman was an American professor specializing in the fields of ecology, population biology, and Bayesian statistics. He was the founder and director of the Environmental Statistics Group in the Department of Ecology at Montana State University.

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