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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#11751

Chris Bachalo

#72626

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Chris Bachalo is a Canadian comic book illustrator known for his quirky, cartoon-like style. He became well known for stints on DC Comics' Shade, the Changing Man and Neil Gaiman's two Death series. Chris has also illustrated several of Marvel Comics' X-Men-related series, including Generation X , X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, and Ultimate X-Men. Beginning in April 2000 Chris illustrated his creator-owned series Steampunk.

#11752

Yaacov Schul

#171457

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Yaacov Schul is an Israeli professor of cognitive and social psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Biography Prof. Schul received his B.A. in Psychology and Mathematics in 1976 from the Hebrew University, and his Ph.D. in Social Psychology in 1981 from the University of Michigan. He has been professor of social psychology at the Hebrew University since 1981, and held various positions at the Hebrew University, including vice rector. He is married, a father of two and a grandfather of four.

#11753

Luis Camnitzer

#25552

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Luis Camnitzer is a German-born Uruguayan artist, curator, art critic, and academic who was at the forefront of 1960s Conceptual Art. Camnitzer works primarily in sculpture, printmaking, and installation, exploring topics such as repression, institutional critique, and social justice.

#11754

Ohad Birk

#170652

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Ohad Birk, a physician-scientist, is a professor of human genetics, converging basic scientific research with effective clinical translational applications. Birk's research lab deciphered the molecular basis and mechanism of more than 30 human diseases, including some of the most prevalent severe hereditary diseases in Arabs and in Jews, as well as three syndromes named after Birk. He also implemented his scientific findings in massive carrier testing programs, conducive to 30% reduction in infant mortality rate in the Bedouin community, as well as near-eradication of two of the most common severe hereditary diseases in Sephardic Jews.

#11755

Merwin Sibulkin

#178077

Overall Influence

1926 - 2006 (80 years)

Merwin Sibulkin was an American scientist active in the field of aerodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer and combustion. Early life and education A World War II Navy veteran, he earned his PhD at California Institute of Technology in 1956.

#11756

Christopher Carroll

#183899

Overall Influence

#11757

Satoru Iwata

#183906

Overall Influence

#11758

Rado Lenček

#76600

Overall Influence

1921 - 2005 (84 years)

Rado Ludovik Lenček was a Slovene linguist, cultural historian and ethnologist, who lived and worked in the United States. He was a professor emeritus at Columbia University and contributed significantly to the development of Slovene studies in the United States.

#11759

William G. Tucker

William G. Tucker

#43639

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

William G. Tucker is a modernist British sculptor and modern art scholar. Biography Tucker was born to English parents on 28 February 1935 in Cairo, Egypt. In 1937, his family returned to England, where Tucker was raised. At the University of Oxford he studied history from 1955 to 1958. He moved to London and studied sculpture both at the Central School of Art and Design and at Saint Martin's School of Art, where Anthony Caro was teaching.

#11760

Feng Gao

#183930

Overall Influence

#11761

John Kim

#183933

Overall Influence

#11762

Timothy Van Laar

#100660

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Timothy Van Laar is an American artist, writer and full-time professor. Art career Van Laar produces art works in multiple formats including, paintings, drawings and installation pieces many of which have been exhibited throughout North America and Europe. He has received fellowships and grants and other support from multiple organizations including Fulbright, Yaddo, the Howard Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Some of the most well known works are the postcard paintings Van Laar has been featured in exhibits at major art museums, including The Detroit Inst...

#11763

Tom Marshall

#65064

Overall Influence

1988 - Present (38 years)

Tom Marshall is a British model maker, voice actor, director and image editor known for his colourisations of historical black and white photographs, often working under the name PhotograFix. He is a scale model maker with his model company Buggleskelly Station.

#11764

Marilyn Wolf

#90585

Overall Influence

Marilyn Claire Wolf is an American computer engineer who works as Elmer E. Koch Professor of Engineering and Founding Director of the School of Computing at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is an expert in embedded computing.

#11765

Yuri Suzuki

#132916

Overall Influence

Yuri Suzuki is a Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. She studies novel ground states and magnetic phenomena. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and an American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellow of the National Science Foundation.

#11766

Kat Steele

#144705

Overall Influence

Katherine Muterspaugh Steele is the Albert S. Kobayashi Endowed Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States. Early life and education Steele was born to two engineers in Colorado. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the Colorado School of Mines and her Master's degree and Phd from Stanford University. In 2012, following the publication of her thesis, she received the NIH Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Career Development Award.

#11767

Robert L. Brown

#183962

Overall Influence

#11768

David Elliott

#45887

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

David Elliott is Professor of Technology Policy at the Open University. He has created several courses in Design and Innovation, with special emphasis on how the innovation development process can be directed towards sustainable technologies. Elliott's main research interests include the development of sustainable energy technologies, particularly renewable energy systems.

#11769

Christopher Howes

#65097

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Sir Christopher Kingston Howes is a British Chartered Surveyor. A specialist in the study of land and buildings, with careers in the public, private, and academic sectors, he has worked in city planning, land use, and environmental management.

#11770

Burcu Özsoy

#128922

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Burcu Özsoy is a Turkish scientist who works with sea ice remote sensing in Antarctica. Özsoy is head of the first Turkish polar research center, ITU PolReC. Early life and education Özsoy is a native of Turkey and graduated from Yıldız Technical University with degrees of Bachelor and Master in Geodesy-Photogrammetry Engineering. In 2001 she started serving as Research Assistant in Istanbul Technical University. In 2003 she joined the Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics Lab, Department of Geological Sciences at University of Texas at San Antonio . Özsoy always had an interest in statistical mathematics and geo-physical sciences and combined both fields by becoming a remote sensing expert.

#11771

Gordon Mitchell

#184001

Overall Influence

#11772

Duane Slick

#58397

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Duane Slick is a Meskwaki artist and educator of Ho-Chunk descent. He is known for his monochromatic paintings. He has taught fine arts at Rhode Island School of Design since 1995. Biography Duane Slick was born 1961 in Waterloo, Iowa, to a Meskwaki father and a Ho-Chunk mother. He received a BFA degree in painting and a BA degree in Art Education from the University of Northern Iowa. Slick completed an MFA degree in 1990 in painting from the University of California, Davis . While at UC Davis, he was mentored by artist, George Longfish.

#11773

Martin Creed

#90526

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Martin Creed is a British artist, composer and performer. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for exhibitions during the preceding year, with the jury praising his audacity for exhibiting a single installation, Work No. 227: The lights going on and off, in the Turner Prize show. Creed lives and works in London.

#11774

Marie Severin

#85087

Overall Influence

1929 - 2018 (89 years)

Marie Severin was an American comics artist and colorist best known for her work for Marvel Comics and the 1950s' EC Comics. She is an inductee of the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame and the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame.

#11775

Halidou Tinto

#126987

Overall Influence

Halidou Tinto is a Professor of parasitology and global health scientist with research that has contributed to understanding and combating malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa. Tinto founded the Clinical Research Unit of Nanaro in Burkina Faso as part of the Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé . Tinto is now the Regional Director of the IRSS, and throughout his career he has contributed to the study of antimalarial drug resistance and the development of malaria vaccines.

#11776

William Pease

#137379

Overall Influence

William S. Pease is an American professor of medicine. He graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in engineering, and then attended and graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine followed by residency at Ohio State. He is currently the Ernest W. Johnson Professor and chair of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Ohio State University Medical Center. His published works include the texts Johnson's Practical Electromyography, 4th ed., 2007; and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice, 4th ed., 2005 . He serves as Medical Director of OSU's ...

#11777

Sima Lev

#184037

Overall Influence

Sima Lev is an Israeli biologist and the Joyce and Ben B. Eisenberg Professorial Chair of Molecular Cell Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. She looks to uncover the mechanisms that drive the development of triple-negative breast cancer, and to identify new therapeutic strategies.

#11778

Evgenia Antipova

Evgenia Antipova

#57074

Overall Influence

1917 - 2009 (92 years)

Evgenia Petrovna Antipova was a Russian painter, graphic artist, and art teacher. She was known for her genre compositions, portraits, landscapes, and still life paintings, which she created using oils and watercolours. Among her favourite themes were apple orchards and Crimean landscapes.

#11779

Taisia Afonina

#50225

Overall Influence

1913 - 1994 (81 years)

Taisia Kirillovna Afonina was a Ukrainian and Russian painter and watercolorist. She lived and worked in Leningrad, was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists , and is regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.

#11780

Gevork Kotiantz

Gevork Kotiantz

#66800

Overall Influence

1909 - 1996 (87 years)

Gevork Vartanovich Kotiantz was a Soviet, Russian - Armenian painter, who lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting. Biography He was born on 12 November 1909 in Shusha, Elizavetpol Governorate in the family of craftsman jeweler. In the same year his family moved to the North Caucasus in Pyatigorsk.

#11781

Ofer Bergman

#141753

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Ofer Bergman is an associate professor at the Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University. His research interests include Personal Information Management, Information behavior and Human-Computer Interaction. He has co-authored 40 publications, including the book The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff , and Navigating Through Digital Folders Uses The Same Brain Structures as Real World Navigation .

#11782

John F Thompson

#184090

Overall Influence

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Monika Płatek

#9661

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Monika Stanisława Płatek is a Polish legal scholar, criminologist, and politician. She is a professor at the University of Warsaw, and her research focuses on penal systems, criminal and civil law, gender studies, and feminist jurisprudence. She has been a candidate for the Senate of Poland and the European Parliament.

#11784

Trudie Lang

#110745

Overall Influence

Trudie Lang is a Professor of Global Health Research at the University of Oxford. She specialises in clinical trials research capacity building in low-resource setting, and helped to organise the trial for the drug brincidofovir during the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak.

#11785

Fatiu Ademola Akesode

#92625

Overall Influence

1940 - 2001 (61 years)

Fatiu Ademola Akesode was a Nigerian professor of paediatrics, educational administrator, and former vice chancellor of Lagos State University Lagos State, Nigeria. Education He was born in Lagos Island, into the Bajulaiye family. He had his primary education at Ansar-Ud-Deen Primary School, Amuto Okepopo and later attended Methodist Boys' High School in 1954 for his secondary education. In 1962, he proceeded to the College of Medicine, University of Lagos. After his first degree in medicine, he obtained a Master of Science degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University in 1968 and a ...

#11786

Alexander Mazhuga

#71698

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Alexander Mazhuga is a Russian political figure and a deputy of the 8th State Duma. In 2013, he was granted a Doctor of Sciences in Chemistry degree. In 2003, Mazhuga started working at the MSU Faculty of Chemistry. He is an author of scientific 15 patents, including international ones. From 2018 to 2021, he headed the D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia. Since September 2021, he has served as deputy of the 8th State Duma. On 12 October 2021 he became the First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education.

#11787

Pål Stenmark

#180138

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Pål Stenmark is a Swedish biochemist and structural biologist. He was appointed professor of Structural Biochemistry at Lund University in 2019 and was appointed professor in Neurochemistry at Stockholm University in 2021.

#11788

Robert Beauchamp

#43058

Overall Influence

1923 - 1995 (72 years)

Robert Beauchamp was an American figurative painter and arts educator. Beauchamp's paintings and drawings are known for depicting dramatic creatures and figures with expressionistic colors. His work was described in the New York Times as being "both frightening and amusing,". He was a Guggenheim Fellow and a student of Hans Hofmann.

#11789

John Grant

#184123

Overall Influence

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Wojciech Sadley

#178253

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Wojciech Sadley is a Polish painter and professor at Warsaw University School of Fine Arts. External links Wojciech Sadley, "Osobna" Galery Vernissage at "Zapiecek" GaleryCałun

#11791

Tadeusz Dominik

#47198

Overall Influence

1928 - 2014 (86 years)

Tadeusz Dominik was a Polish painter, draftsman, and art professor. Dominik was born in Szymanów near Góra Kalwaria. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and received his degree in the painting studio of Prof. Jan Cybis in 1953. He taught at his alma mater from 1951 until his death in 2014. From 1958 until 1959, Dominik resided in Paris thanks to a French government scholarship. During the period of 1961 until 1962, he worked in the United States as a scholar of the Ford Foundation. Dominik died in Warsaw on May 20, 2014, at the age of 85.

#11792

Debora Greger

#99355

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Debora Greger is an American poet as well as a visual artist. She was raised in Richland, Washington. She attended the University of Washington and then the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She then went on to hold fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was professor of English and creative writing at the University of Florida until retiring.> She now works as Poet in Residence at the Harn Museum of Art.

#11793

Andrew Blauvelt

#28217

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Andrew Blauvelt is a Japanese-American curator, designer, educator, and writer. Since 2015 he has served as director of the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Biography Blauvelt received an MFA in design from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1988, and a BFA from the Herron School of Art, Indiana University in 1986.

#11794

Fengge Gao

#184149

Overall Influence

#11795

Nancy D. Griffeth

Nancy D. Griffeth

#171227

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Nancy Davis Griffeth is an American computer scientist notable for approaches to the feature interaction problem. In 2014, she is a professor at Lehman College of The City University of New York and is modelling biological systems in computational biology.

#11796

Katerina Lanfranco

Katerina Lanfranco

#74424

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Katerina Lanfranco is a New York City-based visual artist making paintings, drawings, sculptures, and mixed media installations. She was born in Hamilton, Ontario. She studied art at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she received her B.A in Visual Art and in "Visual Theory and Museum Studies". She also attended the Sierra Institute studying Nature Philosophies and Religions while camping in the California wilderness. She received her M.F.A from Hunter College, City University of New York in Studio Art, with an emphasis in painting. In 2004, she studied at the Universitat der Kunst in Berlin, Germany on an exchange scholarship.

#11797

David Hostetler

#53721

Overall Influence

1926 - 2015 (89 years)

David L. Hostetler was a wood carver and bronze sculptor of works capturing the female form. He was also a professor emeritus of Ohio University. Biography Early life Born in Beach City, Ohio, on December 27, 1926, Hostetler had a close relationship with his Amish grandfather, an influence which stayed with him throughout his career. His interest in art came by accident: during World War II, while studying as an engineer in the US Army, he suffered a shrapnel wound in the leg during a training exercise in California. While recuperating for six months, he became interested in art after receiving drawing materials from a Red Cross volunteer.

#11798

Yreina Cervantez

#85404

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Yreina Cervantez is an American artist and Chicana activist who is known for her multimedia painting, murals, and printmaking. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Mexican Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

#11799

David Axmark

#180263

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

David Axmark, born 28 May 1962 in Sweden, is one of the founders of MySQL AB and a developer of the free database server, MySQL. He has been involved with MySQL development from its beginning along with the fellow co-founder Michael Widenius. He studied at Uppsala University between 1980 and 1984

#11800

Raymond Pettibon

#49367

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Raymond Pettibon is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. Pettibon came to prominence in the early 1980s in the southern California punk rock scene, creating posters and album art mainly for groups on SST Records, owned and operated by his older brother, Greg Ginn. He has subsequently become widely recognized in the fine art world for using American iconography variously pulled from literature, art history, philosophy, and religion to politics, sport, and sexuality.

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