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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#11851

Abdolmajid Eskandari

#129806

Overall Influence

Abdolmajid Eskandari is an Iranian that serves as the Director General of the Office of International Relations, University of Tehran. He is a graduate of English Language and Literature who has been serving in the Office of International Relations, University of Tehran, Iran for more than 32 years.

#11852

Rick K Wilson

#184561

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Chris Smith

#184562

Overall Influence

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Stephen Kershnar

#11860

Overall Influence

Stephen Kershnar is an American philosopher, a philosophy professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia , and an attorney. In 2022, Kershnar discussed his views and a book which question the immorality of "adult-child sex." His comments and the subsequent backlash led to his barring from the campus and a currently pending investigation.

#11855

Chris Newman

#147440

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Chris Newman is a contemporary composer, painter, author and performance artist. Life and work Newman is an experimental interdisciplinary artist using the medium of music, painting, video, drawing and literature. From 1976 to 1979 he studied music at King's College London, taking a Bachelor of Music. During this time he met the Russian poet Eugene Dubnov and started to translate Russian poets , this process of translating proving important for his later work . Started writing own poems in 1979. Moved to Cologne, Germany, in 1980 to study with Mauricio Kagel at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. First public performance singing own songs in 1982.

#11856

Adam Kubert

#94641

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Adam Kubert is an American comics artist known for his work for publishers such as Marvel Comics and DC Comics, including work on Action Comics, Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine, The Incredible Hulk, Ultimate Fantastic Four, Ultimate X-Men, and Wolverine.

#11857

Soo Young Kim

#184639

Overall Influence

#11858

Margaret Weitz

#41196

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Margaret Collins Weitz is a professor emeritus at Suffolk University. Weitz is the author of books and many articles on French culture, French women, and the role of women in the French Resistance. Dr. Weitz graduated from St. Ursula’s High School in Toledo, Ohio and went on to obtain her bachelor's degree from Ohio State University in humanities in 1953. She was awarded a Fulbright grant and proceeded to study for the next two years at University of Poitiers. After studying at Poitiers, she became the first Fulbright scholar to lecture at University of Aix-Marseilles. She later returned to the United States and earned her M.A.

#11859

Concettina Buccella

#183132

Overall Influence

Concettina Buccella is an Italian power engineer whose research topics include "modeling of electrostatic precipitators, impact of electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic compatibility, composite materials, modeling of power converters, control and modulation techniques for power converters, renewable energy, smart grids, analytical and numerical modeling of electric systems". She is Professor in Power Converters, Electric Machines and Drives at the University of L'Aquila.

#11860

Rebekah Jones

#45837

Overall Influence

1989 - Present (37 years)

Rebekah Jones is an American geographer, data scientist, and activist. She managed the team that created the Florida Department of Health's COVID-19 dashboard using ArcGIS software. She was fired from her position in May 2020 for repeated insubordination. In May 2021, she was granted whistleblower protections while the state investigated her allegations.

#11861

Zhu Zhaoxiang

#51004

Overall Influence

1921 - 2011 (90 years)

Zhu Zhaoxiang , also known as Zhao-xiang Zhu, was a Chinese engineer, educator and a pioneer of explosive mechanics in China. He was the first President of Ningbo University. Biography Feb 4, 1921, Zhu was born in Zhenhai County , Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. Both his father and grandfather were fishermen. In 1949, Zhu graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University. In the early 1940s, Zhu joined the Communist Party of China . From 1944 to 1949, Zhu was a lecturer and assistant in the Department of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University.

#11862

Michael J. Franklin

#184652

Overall Influence

#11863

Katsuhiro Yamaguchi

#76308

Overall Influence

1928 - 2018 (90 years)

Katsuhiro Yamaguchi was a Japanese artist and art theorist based in Tokyo and Yokohama. Through his collaborations, writings, and teaching, he promoted an interdisciplinary avant-garde in postwar Japan that served as the foundation for the emergence of Japanese media art in the early 1980s, a field in which he remained active until his death. He represented Japan at the 1968 Venice Biennale and the 1975 Bienal de São Paulo, and served as producer for the Mitsui Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka.

#11864

Albrecht Bertram

#167952

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Albrecht Bertram is a former university professor of mechanics. He held the Chair of Strength of Materials of the Institute of Mechanics at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and is an associate professor at the Department of Continuum Mechanics and Material Theory of the Institute of Mechanics at the Technical University of Berlin.

#11865

I. H. Monrad Aas

I. H. Monrad Aas

#93383

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Inge Harald Monrad Aas is a Norwegian researcher. Born in Steinkjer, he was educated in odontology at the University of Oslo and has his doctoral degree from the same institution. He started in research in 1976 and has had focus on health services research, telemedicine, health care management, health policy, psychiatry and research methodology. He has full professor competence , been invited speaker to international conferences in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, USA and the Middle East, been mentor and given feedback to more than 250 research works, at the Nordic School of Public Health leading international courses at high level in management and international courses for researchers.

#11866

Qing Jiang

#184701

Overall Influence

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James Schoppert

#105678

Overall Influence

1947 - 1992 (45 years)

Robert James "Jim" Schoppert was an Tlingit Alaska Native artist and educator. His work includes woodcarving, painting, poetry, and essays. He has been described as an innovator, whose works pushed the boundaries of what was expected from Northwest Coast art.

#11868

Joseph Delaney

#64553

Overall Influence

1904 - 1991 (87 years)

Joseph Delaney was a black American artist who became a part of the New York art scene at the time of the Harlem Renaissance. He received a fellowship from the Rosenwald Foundation. Early life and education Delaney was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, one of ten children of a Methodist minister. He was the younger brother of Beauford Delaney, with whom he shared an interest in drawing. Delaney dropped out of school in ninth grade. In his late teens and early 20s, Delaney spent a period of years without a settled home before joining the Eighth Infantry Regiment, Illinois National Guard.

#11869

Martin Froy

#122010

Overall Influence

1926 - 2017 (91 years)

Martin Froy was a painter of figures, interiors and landscapes; part of a school of British abstract artists which flourished between the 1950s and 70s. Early life Froy was born in London on 9 February 1926. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1948–51, under William Coldstream, co-founder of the Euston Road School. Froy's painting Europa and the Bull won the Slade Summer Composition Competition in 1950.

#11870

David Chase

#184730

Overall Influence

#11871

Jim Smith

#184745

Overall Influence

#11872

Sarah Onuora

#105845

Overall Influence

Sarah Onuora is a Canadian rheumatologist and the chief editor of Nature Reviews Rheumatology. Education Onuora has a bachelor's degree in biology from McMaster University, Canada. Career In 2005 she worked in the editorial department of Rheumatology journal and she joined Nature Publishing in 2007, initially working on Nature Reviews Neurology before becoming a senior editor at Nature Reviews Rheumatology. She became the chief editor of Nature Reviews Rheumatology in 2015.

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Jeffrey Gibson

#37918

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Jeffrey A. Gibson is an American Mississippi Choctaw/Cherokee painter and sculptor. He has lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York; Hudson, New York; and Germantown, New York. In 2024, Gibson will represent the United States at the Venice Biennale, where he will be the first indigenous artist to have a solo exhibition in the American pavilion.

#11874

Tomo Tanaka

#173941

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Tomo Tanaka FRSE, born in Japan in 1962, is a professor and research scientist based in the Cell and Molecular Biology unit of School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, as well as being a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow.

#11875

Baqer Al-Najjar

#179810

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Baqer Salman Al-Najjer is a Bahraini sociology professor, politician, author, and columnist. He serves as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Arab Sociological Association. Early life and education Al-Najjar was born in 1953. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Kuwait University in 1976. His postgraduate diploma was from Alexandria University. Finally, in 1983, he earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology from Durham University.

#11876

David A. Wood

#184755

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Victoria Fu

#114239

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Victoria Fu is an American visual artist who is working in the field of digital video and analog film, and the interplay of photographic, screen based, and projected images. Education Fu received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts , MA in art history from the University of Southern California, and BA in art from Stanford University. Fu attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Whitney Independent Study Program.

#11878

Martine Culty

#183530

Overall Influence

Martine Culty is a scholar and professor at the Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. Career and Research Martine Culty earned a Ph.D. in Molecular Chemistry from the University of Grenoble in Grenoble, France. Culty has held Associate Professor positions at Georgetown University, McGill University, and the University of Southern California.

#11879

Bonnie Collura

#142805

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Bonnie Collura is an American artist known for figurative multi-media sculptures, textiles and installations created by processes of compositing and sampling. Her art oscillates between abstraction and figuration, mixing aesthetics from baroque sculpture, contemporary animation and quilting with iconic fragments from pop culture, art history and myth. She has embraced theatricality and excess, intertextuality and digital-age influences in her work, often exploring hybridized, disjointed bodies, surrogate characters and reconfigured literary tropes. Sculpture critic Ann Landi has written, "Col...

#11880

Sylvia Noble Tesh

#53543

Overall Influence

Sylvia Noble Tesh, born 1937, is an American academic, professor at Yale and the University of Michigan for over two decades, and currently a professor at the University of Arizona. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Hawaiʻi in political science. She also served as a Fulbright professor at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, in Salvador, Brazil, in 1999. She is best known for her well-cited book Hidden Arguments: Political Ideology and Disease Prevention Policy. Her most recent book, Uncertain Hazards Environmental Activists and Scientific Proof, was published in 2000 by Cornell Universi...

#11881

May Stevens

#84395

Overall Influence

1924 - 2019 (95 years)

May Stevens was an American feminist artist, political activist, educator, and writer. Early life and education May Stevens was born in Boston to working-class parents, Alice Dick Stevens and Ralph Stanley Stevens, and grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts. She had one brother, Stacey Dick Stevens, who died of pneumonia at the age of fifteen. By Stevens's account, her father expressed his racism at home but "never said these things publicly, nor did he act on them—to my knowledge. But he said them over and over."

#11882

Deborah Dancy

#99909

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Deborah Dancy, also known as Deborah Muirhead , is an American painter of large-scale abstractions in oil; she is also a printmaker and mixed media artist. Her work is also known to encompass digital photography. In 1981, she began to teach at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, where she taught painting for thirty-five years until her retirement in 2017. She has received awards such as a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Women’s Studio Workshop Studio Residency Grant, and a YADDO fellowship.

#11883

Peter Self

#60376

Overall Influence

1919 - 1999 (80 years)

Peter John Otter Self was an English journalist, academic, planning policy-maker and university teacher of planning. Self was born in Brighton, to Audrey and Henry Self, a civil servant. Self was educated at Lancing College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. In the Second World War, he was a conscientious objector, working on a farm. In his academic career, he became Professor of Public Administration at the London School of Economics, where he was a prominent member and leader of its Greater London Group research centre. He was also a prominent member of the Town and Country Planning Association.

#11884

Håvard Jostein Haugen

#125165

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Håvard J. Haugen is a Norwegian professor. He is Head of the Department of Biomaterials in Faculty of Dentistry at University of Oslo, Norway. Education In 2021, Haugen completed his Master in Chemical Engineering at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London, United Kingdom. Haugen earned a doctoral engineering from the Technische Universitat Munchen in 2004. His PhD thesis title was "Development of an implant to heal gastro-oesophageal reflux diseases."

#11885

Chaim Hames

#107774

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Chaim J. Hames is a professor of history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , in Beer-Sheva, Israel, and the incumbent of the David Berg and Family Chair in European History. On August 1, 2018, he assumed office as Rector of BGU. Hames' research focuses on medieval history, with a particular interest in inter-religious encounters, particularly between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. He also works on religious conversion, inter-religious polemics, mysticism, philosophy, apocalypticism, and magic.

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Janice Kluge

#88267

Overall Influence

Janice Kluge is an American artist who specializes in large and small scale sculpture. She holds a BFA with honors from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an MFA for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kluge is Professor Emeritus of sculpture and drawing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she has taught since 1982. After serving three years as Interim Chair for the art and art history department she returned to full-time art making and teaching. Kluge is married to Cam Langley, a glass artist who specializes in fine art pieces.

#11887

William Winsborough

#184824

Overall Influence

William H. Winsborough was an American computer scientist, having taught at University of Texas at San Antonio and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#11888

Jaron Lanier

#184840

Overall Influence

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Bryndís Benediktsdóttir

Bryndís Benediktsdóttir

#181149

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Bryndís Benediktsdóttir is a professor emerita in the faculty of medicine at the University of Iceland. Professional career Bryndís completed a matriculation examination from Reykjavik Junior College in 1971 and in the same year, began studying medicine at the University of Iceland. She completed a Cand. degree from the University in 1977 and pursued studies in general practice and internal medicine during the period 1979 to 1987 in Uppsala, Sweden. She received Specialist Rights in General Practice in Sweden 1984, in Iceland 1987 and European Specialist Rights in Sleep Medicine 2009.

#11890

M. Azizur Rahman

#169529

Overall Influence

1941 - 2018 (77 years)

Md. Azizur Rahman was a Canadian Bangladeshi inventor of modern energy-efficient electric motors that span multiple industry applications. He was an electrical engineer, professor, researcher and scientist. He is internationally recognized as one of the founding innovators of modern power engineering and a pioneer in the development and application of interior permanent magnet motors and associated drive technology-used in the world's first mass-produced hybrid vehicle, the Toyota Prius. Since launching the Prius in 1997, Toyota surpassed global sales of 15 million hybrid vehicles in 2020, all of which use Dr.

#11891

Robert Kerns

#143869

Overall Influence

Robert D. Kerns is an American clinical psychologist, academic and author. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Neurology and Psychology at Yale University and Senior Research Scientist of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. He is also a Program Director of National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs Pain Management Collaboratory Coordinating Center.

#11892

Jing Xiao

#184863

Overall Influence

Jing Xiao is a professor of robotics and head of the department of robotics engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute . She is the director of the Adaptive and Intelligent Robotics Lab, as well as site director of WPI's ROSE-HUB. Xiao was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for her contributions to robot compliant motion and haptic interaction. Xiao has also served as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies and Program Director of the Computing and Information Systems Ph.D. Program while serving as a professor of computer science at Un...

#11893

Ian Craig

#177719

Overall Influence

Ian Craig was selected to give the 67th 2018 Bernard Price Memorial Lecture from the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers . The title of his lecture was ‘Automatic Control: The Hidden Technology that Modern Society Cannot Live Without.'

#11894

Feng Ding

#184868

Overall Influence

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Anthony Andre

#106763

Overall Influence

Anthony D. Andre is a researcher, practitioner, and academic in the fields of human factors, ergonomics, usability and product design. He is the founding principal of Interface Analysis Associates, an international human factors and ergonomics consultancy. Andre pioneered the behavioral approach to ergonomics which included behavior modification and computer skill development as its basis, in direct opposition to common product-based approaches. He is a founding member and adjunct professor of the HF/E Graduate Program at San Jose State University. He founded the International Conference on Hu...

#11896

Thomas Espeseth

#106010

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Thomas Espeseth is a Norwegian psychologist, neuroscientist and Professor of Psychology at the University of Oslo. He researches cognitive neurogenetics, such as genetic effects on the brains's morphology, physiology, and cognitive functions. In 2008 he received His Majesty The King's Gold Medal for his research. According to Google Scholar, he has been cited over 15000 times in scientific literature and has an h-index of 54.

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Steven Barnes

#184874

Overall Influence

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Diane Tuft

#105185

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Diane Tuft is an American photographer focusing on nature and landscape photography, documenting the effects of the environment on the Earth's landscape. She is based in New York City. Early life and education Tuft was born and raised in East Hartford, Connecticut. She graduated from the University of Connecticut with a degree in mathematics. After graduating, she moved to New York City to work as an actuarial assistant. She later held jobs with the Burroughs Corporation and Computer Design Corporation. During this time, she studied photography at The New School and the International Center of Photography.

#11899

Ronald J Clarke

#184910

Overall Influence

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Kate Hone

#145989

Overall Influence

Kate Samara Hone is a British psychologist and computer scientist specialising in human–computer interaction and digital user experience, particularly as applied to the performance, evaluation, and acceptance of educational technology and massive open online courses. She has also been noted for her research on gender stereotypes in preferences for computer speech synthesis. She is a professor of computer science at Brunel University London, where she heads the department of computer science.

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