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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#11451

Susan Silas

#112531

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Susan Silas is a visual artist working primarily in video, sculpture and photography. Her work, through self-portraiture, examines the meaning of embodiment, the index in representation, and the evolution of our understanding of the self. She is interested in the aging body, gender roles, the fragility of sentient being and the potential outcome of the creation of idealized selves through bio-technology and artificial intelligence.

#11452

James G. Henderson

#93777

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

James G. Henderson is a full professor at the School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies at Kent State University. He co-founded an education journal and has written several books and articles on curriculum design. He created the curriculum structure known as 3S Understanding.

#11453

Junko Kimura

#181088

Overall Influence

#11454

Alison Aune

#91470

Overall Influence

Alison Aune is a painter and Full Professor of Art Education at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Her work is inspired by Scandinavian patterns and motifs. It draws on a feminist aesthetic, honoring traditional folk arts and domestic arts. Many of her patterns are based on research of Scandinavian textiles and symbols, such as the eight-pointed star. Artists such as Gustav Vigeland, Harriet Backer and Gerhard Munthe have had an important influence on her work.

#11455

Uwe Grimm

#171905

Overall Influence

1963 - 2021 (58 years)

Uwe Grimm was a German mathematician and physicist. He was one of the pioneers in aperiodic tilings and their dynamical and spectral properties. He also worked in statistical physics and combinatorics.

#11456

Xun Xu

#181094

Overall Influence

#11457

Sally Wyatt

#150933

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Sally Wyatt , is a researcher in Science and Technology Studies and the program Leader of the eHumanities group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, director of The Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture and professor of Digital Society Bachelor Course at Maastricht University.

#11458

Amlan Das Gupta

Amlan Das Gupta

#58489

Overall Influence

Amlan Das Gupta is former Professor of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is a noted scholar of Classical and Biblical Studies, English Renaissance literature and an authority on Miltonic studies in India having numerous publications to his credit.

#11459

Fletcher Benton

#89861

Overall Influence

1931 - 2019 (88 years)

Fletcher C. Benton was an American sculptor and painter from San Francisco, California. Benton was widely known for his kinetic art as well as his large-scale steel abstract geometric sculptures. Life Born in the coal, nugget and iron-producing district of southern Ohio, Benton was a successful sign painter as a youth. After serving in the United States Navy, he graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1956. Thereafter he moved to San Francisco, and began as an instructor at the California College of Arts and Crafts and then went to Europe, traveli...

#11460

John Blackburn

#101210

Overall Influence

1924 - 2009 (85 years)

John L. Blackburn was an administrator at the University of Alabama who contributed to the racial integration of the school. He died on July 3, 2009, of complications from myleodysplasia, a disorder that hampers the body's ability to produce red blood cells.

#11461

Shigeru Mizuki

#44304

Overall Influence

1922 - 2015 (93 years)

, also known as Shigeru Mizuki, was a Japanese manga artist and historian. He was known for his yōkai manga such as GeGeGe no Kitarō and Akuma-kun, as well as for his war stories based on his own war manga such as Shōwa-shi.

#11462

John Harrison Wharton

John Harrison Wharton

#110295

Overall Influence

1954 - 2018 (64 years)

John Harrison Wharton was an American engineer specializing in microprocessors and their applications. Wharton designed the Intel MCS-51, one of the most implemented instruction set architectures of all time.

#11463

Peter Ellaway

#130664

Overall Influence

Peter H. Ellaway is a British neuroscientist who is an emeritus professor of the Division of Neurosciences and Mental Health at Imperial College, London. His awards include the Commemoration Medal, Charles University, Prague .

#11464

Karenleigh A. Overmann

#112560

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Karenleigh A. Overmann is a cognitive archaeologist known for her work on how ancient societies became numerate and literate. She currently directs the Center for Cognitive Archaeology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Before becoming an academic researcher, Overmann served 25 years of active duty in the U.S. Navy.

#11465

Michael Petry

#55425

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Michael Petry is an American multi-media artist and author who lives and works in London. He is director of MOCA, London , and co-founder of the Museum of Installation, also in London. He was formerly the Curator of the Royal Academy Schools Gallery, Guest Curator at the KunstAkademi, Oslo, and Research Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton.

#11466

Akira Nakamura

#181163

Overall Influence

#11467

Juan Flores

#65447

Overall Influence

1943 - 2014 (71 years)

Juan Flores was a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and director of Latino Studies at New York University. He was considered a leading pioneer, scholar, and expert in Latin American and Nuyorican culture, often working with his wife Miriam Jiménez Román.

#11468

Tomáš Čajka

#157658

Overall Influence

Tomáš Čajka , is a Czech chemist, who is active in the field of analytical chemistry; he is an associate professor of the Department of metabolomics, Institute of physiology CAS . Works Novel approaches to streamlining gas chromatographic analysis of food and environmental contaminants, Ph.D. thesis, 2009.

#11469

Alberto Morrocco

#46844

Overall Influence

1917 - 1998 (81 years)

Alberto Morrocco was a Scottish artist and teacher. He is famous for his works featuring landscapes of Scotland and abroad, still-life, figure painting and interiors, but perhaps his best known works are his beach scenes and views of Venice.

#11470

Hlaing Minn

#181224

Overall Influence

Hlaing Minn is an electrical engineer at the University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, Texas. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for his contributions to synchronization and channel estimation in communication systems.

#11471

Lawrence I Grossman

#181235

Overall Influence

#11472

Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

#167719

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii is a computational linguist and a professor in Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo, Japan. She is the author of Semiotics of Programming, an award-winning book semiotically analyzing computer programs along three axes: models of signs, kinds of signs, and systems of signs.

#11473

Paryse Martin

#123984

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Paryse Martin is an American-born Canadian artist. She works in multiple disciplines, including painting, sculpture, illustration and animation. Life and work Paryse Martin was born in Caribou, Maine in the United States. In 1986, she completed her bachelor's degree in fine art from Université Laval, followed by her Master's of Fine Arts in 1994, again at Laval. Martin became a professor of fine art at Université Laval in 2000, where she continues to work today. In 2007, she completed PhD in art at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

#11474

Xavier Leroy

#181264

Overall Influence

#11475

Tony Tasset

#115880

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Tony Tasset is an American artist. His works consists mainly of video, bronze, wax, sculpture, photography, film, and taxidermy. He has had exhibitions in Dallas, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York, Los Angeles, Germany, Canada, Portugal, Italy, Ecuador, and London.

#11476

Karen Finley

#69360

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Karen Finley is an American performance artist, musician and poet. Her performance art, recordings, and books are used as forms of activism. Her work frequently uses nudity and profanity. Finley incorporates depictions of sexuality, abuse, and disenfranchisement in her work. She is currently a professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

#11477

Hiroyuki Yoshida

#181282

Overall Influence

#11478

Boyukagha Mirzazade

#46799

Overall Influence

1921 - 2007 (86 years)

Boyukagha Meshadi oglu Mirzazade was an Azerbaijani artist, named People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR in 1967. Biography In 1939, Boyukagha Mirzazade graduated from Baku Technical School of the Arts, where Azim Azimzade was one of his teachers. In 1940, Mirzazade entered the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts, but could not complete his education there because of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Later, Mirzazade studied at Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts. After graduating, he worked at a technical school of arts as a teacher and an artist. Mirzazade was the head of a dep...

#11479

Thomas Weber

#181306

Overall Influence

#11480

Eelco van Asperen

#43432

Overall Influence

1965 - 2013 (48 years)

Eelco van Asperen was a Dutch computer scientist. and associate professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, at the School of Economics. On the first webpages created by Tim Berners-Lee, Van Asperen was credited as having contributed to the "WWW project". Van Asperen "ported the line-mode browser [to] the PC under PC-NFS; developed a curses version."

#11481

Gareth Brenton

#181257

Overall Influence

A. Gareth Brenton FLSW. is a Welsh physicist and chemist known for his work in mass spectrometry. Early life and education Gareth was born in South Wales. He went on to attend the University of Wales at Swansea in the early 1970s. He received a Ph.D. in physics in 1979.

#11482

Keith Reid

#181352

Overall Influence

#11483

Nathalie Revol

#168602

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Nathalie Revol is a French computer scientist known for her research on computer arithmetic, including floating-point arithmetic and interval arithmetic. She is a researcher for the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation , associated with the arithmetic and computing project of the Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme at the École normale supérieure de Lyon.

#11484

Dou Xiankang

#180046

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Dou Xiankang is a Chinese space physicist, university administrator and politician, formerly served as president of Wuhan University. Dou joined the Chinese Communist Party in October 1985. He is a delegate to the 13th National People's Congress. He is a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and an alternate member of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

#11485

Michael Bauer

#181368

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

#11486

Di Xiao

#181376

Overall Influence

#11487

Paul S. Smith

#181381

Overall Influence

#11488

Ian Gibson

#40291

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Ian Gibson is a British comic book artist, best known for his 1980s black-and-white work for 2000 AD, especially as the main artist on Robo-Hunter and The Ballad of Halo Jones, as well as his long run on Judge Dredd.

#11489

Eric Bransby

#71898

Overall Influence

1916 - 2020 (104 years)

Eric James Bransby was an American artist and muralist. He studied and made murals in Colorado Springs, Colorado, including several at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. He taught at Yale University, Brigham Young University, and University of Missouri-Kansas City.

#11490

Diane Katsiaficas

#105066

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Diane Katsiaficas is an American visual artist of Greek heritage. Her work ranges from small journal drawings and paintings to large-scale installations and has been shown throughout the United States and Europe. She is a professor in the Art Department at the University of Minnesota.

#11491

Müge Çevik

#87742

Overall Influence

Müge Çevik is a physician who is an infectious diseases researcher and science communicator at the University of St Andrews. Her research considers HIV, viral hepatitis, emerging infections and tropical infections in developing countries. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Çevik was an advisor to the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland and the World Health Organization, and is a member of New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group - an expert committee of the UK Department of Health advising Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.

#11492

Victor Hugo

#80963

Overall Influence

1942 - 1993 (51 years)

Victor Hugo, born Victor Rojas, was a Venezuelan-born American artist, window dresser, and partner of the designer Halston. Early life Robb Hernandez wrote in 2019 that Hugo was born at the time of a military coup d'état in Caracas and emigrated with his mother to New York City around 1973.

#11493

Yue Cao

#181500

Overall Influence

#11494

Christine Patch

#120564

Overall Influence

Christine Patch is a nurse and genetic counsellor. She is a Principal Staff Scientist in Genomic Counselling in the Society and Ethics Research group, part of Wellcome Connecting Science, based on the Wellcome Genome Campus. She is also the Clinical Lead for Genetic Counselling at Genomics England, and a former President of the European Society of Human Genetics.

#11495

Luis Nishizawa

#28747

Overall Influence

1918 - 2014 (96 years)

Luis Nishizawa Flores was a Mexican artist known for his landscape work and murals, which often show Japanese and Mexican influence. He began formal training as an artist in 1942 at the height of the Mexican muralism movement but studied other painting styles as well as Japanese art.

#11496

Michael J Davies

#181536

Overall Influence

#11497

Stan Rice

#17555

Overall Influence

1942 - 2002 (60 years)

Stanley Travis Rice Jr. was an American poet and artist. He was the husband of author Anne Rice. Biography Rice was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1942. He met his future wife Anne O'Brien in high school. They briefly attended North Texas State University together, before marrying in 1961 and moving to San Francisco in 1962, to enroll at San Francisco State University, where they both earned their bachelor's and master's degrees. Rice was a professor of English and Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. In 1977, he received the Academy of American Poets' Edgar Allan Poe Award for Whit...

#11498

Gabriela de Queiroz

#174353

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

#11499

Tandy Trower

#134287

Overall Influence

Tandy Trower is the current CEO of Hoaloha Robotics LLC, a robotics company based in Seattle, Washington, developing an autonomously mobile, socially interactive robot, to empower senior citizens to live more independently.

#11500

William Christenberry

William Christenberry

#51557

Overall Influence

1936 - 2016 (80 years)

William Andrew Christenberry Jr. was an American photographer, painter, sculptor, and teacher who drew inspiration from his childhood in Hale County, Alabama. Christenberry focused extensively on architecture, abandoned structures, nature, and extensively studied the psychology and effects of place and memory. He is best known for his haunting compositions of landscapes, signs, and abandoned buildings in his home state. Christenberry is also considered a pioneer of colored photography as an art form; he was especially encouraged in the medium by the likes of Walker Evans and William Egglesto...

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