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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#11601

Wang Huaimin

#172109

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Wang Huaimin is a Chinese scientist specializing in distributed computing. He is the current vice-president of National University of Defense Technology and dean of its School of Computing. Early life Wang was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu in 1962.

#11602

Richard H. Moss

#63740

Overall Influence

Richard H. Moss is a climate scientist and former chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment. In that role, he was responsible to support the publication of the Climate Science Special Report and the Fourth National Climate Assessment.

#11603

Liang Huang

#182555

Overall Influence

#11604

Michael Galperin

#182558

Overall Influence

#11605

Joan Boyar

#181280

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Joan Faye Boyar is an American and Danish computer scientist whose research interests include online algorithms, cryptology, and the computational complexity of the Boolean functions used in cryptology. She is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Southern Denmark.

#11606

Eduardo Rocha

#182561

Overall Influence

#11607

Sandie McCarthy

#180666

Overall Influence

Alexandra Leigh McCarthy is a New Zealand nursing academic and as of September 2018 she was a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career After a 2005 PhD titled 'A rebellious distemper : a Foucaultian history of breast cancer to 1900' at the Queensland University of Technology, she moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor. In early 2017 she was appointed head of the University School of Nursing.

#11608

Gang He

#175360

Overall Influence

Gang He is an expert on energy and climate policy. He is an assistant professor in the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College, City University of New York. Education He received his undergraduate degree in geography from Peking University. He was known as one of the few Chinese students who were first selected to attend the UNFCCC CoP11 Youth Summit as a youth delegate. He continued to pursue a Master of Arts at Columbia University in Climate and Society. After graduating, he worked at the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development in Stanford University. In 2010, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned Ph.D.

#11609

Bavand Karim

#79473

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Bavand Karim is an Iranian-American multi-media artist and filmmaker from Dallas, Texas. Education Karim attended J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas. He received the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Cinema and Television from Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University in 2010.

#11610

Janet Scott

#157362

Overall Influence

1964 - 2022 (58 years)

Janet L. Scott was a South African chemist who was Professor of Sustainable Chemistry at the University of Bath. She also worked as the Director of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Chemical Technologies.

#11611

Clifford Nii Boi Tagoe

#49472

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Clifford Nii Boi Tagoe, is a Ghanaian academic who is the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana. He has been teaching anatomy for over 25 years in Ghana and abroad and in 2000 he became Professor of Anatomy and Dean at the University of Ghana Medical School. In 2005, he became acting vice chancellor of the university. He served for five years and was succeeded in 2010 by Ernest Aryeetey.

#11612

Jessica Helfand

#21499

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Jessica Helfand is a designer, author, and educator. She is a former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Eye and Communications Arts magazine, and founding editor of the website Design Observer. She is Senior Critic at Yale School of Art since 1994, a lecturer in Yale College, and Artist-in-Residence at Yale’s Institute for Network Science. Named the first Henry Wolf Resident in design at the American Academy in Rome in 2010, she is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and the Art Director’s Hall of Fame. In 2013, she won the AIGA medal.

#11613

Masato Tanaka

#182618

Overall Influence

#11614

Ryosuke Takahashi

#182631

Overall Influence

#11615

Michael Polydefkis

#142291

Overall Influence

Michael James Polydefkis is an American neurologist. He is a Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Co-Director of the Cutaneous Nerve Laboratory. Polydefkis research focuses on treating hATTR amyloidosis and diabetic and HIV-associated peripheral neuropathy.

#11616

Jan Wielemaker

#181023

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Jan Wielemaker is a Dutch computer scientist. He initiated the SWI-Prolog implementation of the Prolog programming language in 1987 while employed at the University of Amsterdam, and he continued its development after moving to the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Since 2017, he has been associated with the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica. In 2020, he became the Director of SWI-Prolog Solutions b.v.

#11617

Helen Greiner

#169258

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Helen Greiner is a co-founder of iRobot and former CEO of CyPhy Work, Inc., a start-up company specializing in small multi-rotor drones for the consumer, commercial and military markets. Ms Greiner is currently the CEO of Tertill Corporation.

#11618

Qiang Shen

#182643

Overall Influence

#11619

M. Dayne Aldridge

#89398

Overall Influence

M. Dayne Aldridge, Sc.D., P.E. is the former Dean of the School of Engineering at Mercer University. Aldridge served as dean from 1999 to June 30, 2008. He was formerly the associate dean for cross-disciplinary programs in the College of Engineering at Auburn University and served as director of the Thomas Walter Center for Technology Management. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and has served as the president of the IEEE Industry Applications Society. He graduated from West Virginia University in 1963 and received his masters' and doctorate in Elect...

#11620

Paul Neary

#79089

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Paul Neary is a British comic book artist, writer and editor. His first work was for Warren Publishing in the 1970s before working with Dez Skinn at Marvel UK as well as work for 2000 AD. He later became editor-in-chief of Marvel UK in the 1990s but is now best known for inking Bryan Hitch's work on The Ultimates for Marvel Comics.

#11621

Mark G. Stewart

#182672

Overall Influence

#11622

Rudolph Edward Torrini

#78866

Overall Influence

1923 - 2018 (95 years)

Rudolph Edward Torrini was an American artist best known for his sculptures, wood carvings and bronze public monuments in the St. Louis area, including "The Immigrants", "The Union Soldier," and "Martin Luther King." A student of Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović, his work is also influenced by the works of Auguste Rodin. Torrini trained and taught Bob Cassilly, founder of the City Museum in St. Louis, and also helped establish the Master of Fine Arts program in Fontbonne College.

#11623

Jetty Kleijn

#175932

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Jetty Kleijn is a Dutch computer scientist known for her work in automata theory and concurrent computing, on Petri nets, and on interactions between computer science and biology. A 2020 special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae was dedicated to Kleijn in celebration of her 65th birthday.

#11624

Jakita O. Thomas

#169726

Overall Influence

Jakita O. Thomas is a Philpott Westpoint Stevens Associate Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University. Thomas is one of the co-founders of Pharaoh's Conclave, an organisation helping engage and prepare youth for careers and opportunities related to eSports. Thomas is also a founder of Black ComputeHer which is an organisation dedicated to supporting computing tech education and workforce development for Black women and girls.

#11625

Steve Poleskie

#92141

Overall Influence

1938 - 2019 (81 years)

Stephen 'Steve' Poleskie was an artist and writer. The son of a high school teacher, Poleskie graduated from Wilkes University in 1959 with a degree in Economics. A self-taught artist, Poleskie had his first one-person show at the Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1958, while still in college. These works were largely abstract expressionistic in nature.

#11626

Simon Rogers

#182718

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

#11627

Ram Chandra Shukla

#55873

Overall Influence

1925 - 2016 (91 years)

Ram Chandra Shukla was an Indian painter and art critic. Early life Shukla was born in a small village called Shukulpura of district Basti, Uttar Pradesh in a farmer's family. Soon after that his father shifted to a prominent, cultural city, Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, where he grew up.

#11628

Neil Goldberg

#175137

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Neil Goldberg is an American video, photo and mixed media artist who lives and works in New York City. Goldberg received his BA in History and Computer Science from Brown University in 1985. His art career began in 1992, and he has since exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, NGBK Kunsthalle Berlin and El Centro de Cultura Contemporània. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Goldberg's video Surfacing was featured on 15 screens in Times Square for the month of June 2013 as part of Midnight...

#11629

Yutaka Matsuo

#182744

Overall Influence

#11630

Irina Perminova

#170382

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Irina Vasilievna Perminova is Russian scientist, Professor, Dr. Habil. in Analytical Chemistry, Chief Scientist, Head of the Laboratory of Natural Humic Systems at the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Fine Organic Synthesis of the Department of Chemistry of the Moscow University, Moscow, Russia

#11631

Ya-Qin Zhang

#175252

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Ya-Qin Zhang is a Chinese-American scientist, technologist and business executive. He is currently a Chair Professor at Tsinghua University and the founding Dean of the Tsinghua institute for AI Industry Research .

#11632

Alasdair Gray

#9418

Overall Influence

1934 - 2019 (85 years)

Alasdair James Gray was a Scottish writer and artist. His first novel, Lanark , is seen as a landmark of Scottish fiction. He published novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translations, and wrote on politics and the history of English and Scots literature. His works of fiction combine realism, fantasy, and science fiction with the use of his own typography and illustrations, and won several awards.

#11633

Amina Abubakar

#81245

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Amina Abubakar is a Kenyan associate Professor of Psychology and Public Health at Pwani University. She is a research fellow at the Kenya Medical Research Institute. Her research considers the developmental delay in children who have HIV, malnutrition and malaria. She is an honorary fellow at the University of Oxford.

#11634

Feng Lin

#182750

Overall Influence

#11635

Byron Jones

#182767

Overall Influence

#11636

Ichiro Suzuki

#182783

Overall Influence

#11637

Stephen Connor

#80496

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Stephen Robert Connor is an American licensed clinical health psychologist, researcher, author, executive and palliative care consultant. He is the executive director of the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance , formerly called the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance . From 1998 to 2008 he served as Vice President of Research and Development at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization . He has promoted global initiatives for hospice and end-of-life care programs through the World Health Assembly. He has also addressed the UN General Assembly on the need for greater pain man...

#11638

Peter Lamont

#62165

Overall Influence

1929 - 2020 (91 years)

Peter Curtis Lamont was a British set decorator, art director, and production designer most noted for his collaborations with filmmaker James Cameron, and for working on eighteen James Bond films, from Goldfinger to Casino Royale . The only Bond film that he did not work on during that period was Tomorrow Never Dies , as he was working on Cameron's Titanic at the time. He also worked extensively as a set dresser on the Carry On series in the 1960s.

#11639

Ronald L. Rivest

#182834

Overall Influence

#11640

Susanna Donatelli

#180238

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Susanna Donatelli is an Italian computer scientist specializing in discrete-event simulations and their specification, modeling, and analysis using Petri nets, stochastic Petri nets, stochastic process algebras, and the Unified Modeling Language . She is a professor of computer science at the University of Turin.

#11641

Ben Sakoguchi

#89215

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Ben Sakoguchi is a Japanese-American artist who was born in San Bernardino, California. At age five, his family was interned at the Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona following the enforcement of Executive Order 9066.

#11642

David Threlfall

#68352

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

David John Threlfall is an English stage, film and television actor and director. He is best known for playing Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's series Shameless. He has also directed several episodes of the show. In April 2014, he portrayed comedian Tommy Cooper in a television film entitled Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This. In 2014, he starred alongside Jude Law in the thriller Black Sea. In 2022, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance in the Martin McDonagh play Hangmen.

#11643

David C. Knapp

#46135

Overall Influence

1927 - 2010 (83 years)

David C. Knapp was an American educational administrator. Knapp was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1927, and received his B.A. in political science from Syracuse University in 1947. He entered the University of Chicago; earning his M.A. in 1948. Knapp served in the U.S. Army's Second Armored Division in Ft. Hood, Texas and West Germany from 1950 to 1952 and returned to Chicago to complete his Ph.D. in political science in 1953.

#11644

Roy Maxion

#182891

Overall Influence

Roy A. Maxion is a research professor at School of Computer Science of Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include biometrics, keystroke dynamics, and software reliability. His h-index is 30.

#11645

E. Keith Eddington

#108973

Overall Influence

1923 - 2007 (84 years)

Elmo Keith Eddington was an American artist and graphic designer from Utah. He fought in World War II. He was a professor at the University of Utah, and later at Brigham Young University. He is noted for his portraiture and for his large painting of Jesus Christ that hangs in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah.

#11646

Luca Fabbri

#182896

Overall Influence

#11647

Pascale Domingo

#170215

Overall Influence

Pascale Domingo is a French combustion physicist and aerothermochemist who uses large eddy simulation to study flames and reactive flows in turbulent fuel-air mixtures. She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research , and is affiliated with the Complexe de Recherche Interprofessionnel en Aérothermochimie , a joint research unit of CNRS, the University of Rouen Normandy, and the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Rouen.

#11648

Toshiko Takaezu

#52903

Overall Influence

1922 - 2011 (89 years)

Toshiko Takaezu was an American ceramic artist, painter, sculptor, and educator with an oeuvre spanning a wide range of mediums, including ceramics, weavings, bronzes, and paintings. She is noted for her pioneer work in ceramics and has played an important role in the international revival of interest in the ceramic arts. Takaezu was known for her rounded, closed ceramic forms which broke from traditions of clay as a medium for functional objects to explore its potential for aesthetic expression, taking on Abstract Expressionist concepts and placing her work in the realm of postwar abstractionism.

#11649

Sylvia Sleigh

#28072

Overall Influence

1916 - 2010 (94 years)

Sylvia Sleigh was a Welsh-born naturalised American realist painter who lived and worked in New York City. She is known for her role in the feminist art movement and especially for reversing traditional gender roles in her paintings of nude men, often using conventional female poses from historical paintings by male artists like Diego Vélazquez, Titian, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Her most well-known subjects were art critics, feminist artists, and her husband, Lawrence Alloway.

#11650

Takayuki Matsumoto

#182991

Overall Influence

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