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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#11901

Kenneth L. Calvert

#180476

Overall Influence

Kenneth Leonard Calvert is an American computer scientist and a professor of computer science at the University of Kentucky, where from 2014 to 2020 he held the Gartner Group Chair in Network Engineering. His research interests include network topology and network security.

#11902

Sonja McIlfatrick

#177176

Overall Influence

Sonja Jayne McIlfatrick is a nurse and Professor in Nursing and Palliative Care and Dean of Ulster Doctoral College at Ulster University. She was the first non-American President of the International Network of Doctoral Education in Nursing.

#11903

Noa Marom

#164550

Overall Influence

Noa Marom is an Israeli materials scientist and computational physicist at Carnegie Mellon University. She was awarded the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Young Scientist Prize. Early life and education Marom studied materials engineering at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and earned her bachelor's degree in 2003. After graduating, she worked as an application engineer in the Process and Control Division. She joined the Weizmann Institute of Science for her doctoral studies, earning a PhD under the supervision of Leeor Kronik in 2010. Marom won the Shimon Reich Memorial Prize for her PhD thesis.

#11904

Federico Díaz

#174154

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Federico Díaz is an artist of Czech-Argentinean descent who lives and works in Prague. He has exhibited at the Mori Art Museum Tokyo, CAFA Museum Beijing, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Ars Electronica Linz, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Basel in Miami Beach , the Florence Biennale, at the 54thVenice Biennale, the Brno House of Arts, Royal Institute of British Architects and had a project with the University of Cambridge. In 2010 he represented Czech art at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. In 2007 he received the Premio Internazional...

#11905

Theo Öhlinger

#57509

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Theodor "Theo" Öhlinger is an Austrian constitutional scholar and educator. Öhlinger was a member the Austrian Constitutional Court from 1977 to 1989 and a professor of constitutional and administrative law at the University of Vienna from 1974 to 2007. Since 1999, he has been serving as the deputy chairman of the board of trustees of the Vienna Museum of Art History. Öhlinger has published 23 books and more than 350 scholarly articles and appears as a frequent commentator on legal issues in the Austrian news media. Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen called him Austria's "operating s...

#11906

Timothy App

#98664

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Timothy App is a contemporary American painter whose works are in numerous private and public collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art. Biography Timothy App attended Kent State University in Ohio, where he received a BFA degree in painting in 1970. He continued his study of painting at Tyler School of Art of Temple University and in 1974 received an MFA. During his thirty-two years of teaching, he has taught at Pomona College in California, the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and since 1990 at MICA. With many one-person and group exhibitions, he has shown his abstract paintings regionally, nationally, and abroad.

#11907

Ann Purcell

#137173

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Ann Purcell is an American painter. Born in Arlington County, Virginia, Purcell earned her bachelor's degree in painting from the Corcoran School of Art and George Washington University in 1973, after independent study in Mexico from 1969 to 1971. In 1995 she received a Master of Arts degree in Liberal Studies from New York University. She has been invited to many exhibitions, solo and group, both in the United States and abroad. An abstract expressionist, she received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1989 and in 2018; a Lester Hereward Cooke foundation grant for mid-career achievement i...

#11908

Michael Ashkin

#81751

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Michael Ashkin is an American artist who makes sculptures, videos, photographs and installations depicting marginalized, desolate landscapes. He is a professor at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. Ashkin was a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow.

#11909

W. D. Wright

#74819

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Dr. W. D. Wright is a professor emeritus of history at Southern Connecticut State University and the author of seven books on race and racism. He earned a Ph.D. from State University of New York at Buffalo where he was influenced by W. E. B. Du Bois, referring to himself as a Du Boisian historical sociologist. He later published his dissertation "The Socialist Analysis of W. E. B. Du Bois."

#11910

Louis Delsarte

#62161

Overall Influence

1944 - 2020 (76 years)

Louis Jessup Delsarte III was an African-American artist known for what has sometimes been called his "illusionistic" style. He was a painter, muralist, printmaker, and illustrator. When Delsarte was growing up, he was surrounded by music including jazz, opera, musicals, and the blues. From this experience, as well as from his knowledge of African history and culture, he has drawn much of the inspiration for his art. Delsarte was a professor of Fine Arts at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. For the past 13 years his work has been exhibited around the United States.

#11911

Min Sun

#185050

Overall Influence

#11912

Henry Haig

#54909

Overall Influence

1930 - 2007 (77 years)

Henry Haig was an English abstract artist, painter and sculptor but notable predominantly for his stained glass work. Early life and education Born in Hampstead in 1930, Haig's talent was recognised and encouraged by Jack Fairhurst, his art teacher at Richmond and East Sheen County School for Boys. A visit to Wimbledon School of Art at the age of fifteen led to an immediate offer of a place. Haig studied painting and sculpture there for five years until called for national service in 1949. He refused an officer's commission on completion, preferring to return to his art studies. He applied fo...

#11913

Yang I Li

#185056

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#11914

Peter Edwards

#52466

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Peter Edwards, , is a British painter. He won the 1994 BP Portrait Award. Early career In 1980 he exhibited a small self-portrait in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. The painting was bought by the art collector, Sir Brinsley Ford.

#11915

Haiyan Wang

#171234

Overall Influence

Haiyan Wang is an American engineer. As the Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering at Purdue University's School of Materials Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, she is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Ceramic Society, and American Physical Society.

#11916

David G. Lowe

#185082

Overall Influence

#11917

Jean Fan

#151629

Overall Influence

Jean Fan is an American Biomedical Engineer who emigrated from China. She is known for her research in molecular biology in regards to cancer. In addition, throughout her life she has facilitated young girls to pursue a career in science.

#11918

Raimi Gbadamosi

#67811

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Raimi Olakunle Gbadamosi is a contemporary British conceptual artist and writer. His work addresses themes of identity and art theory, using his trademark motif of yellow, white and black. Life and work His middle name stems from the words "Ola" meaning "wealth" and "Kunle" meaning "surplus at home" in Yoruba. Gbadamosi attained his doctorate in fine art from The Slade, London, in 2001. He also has an MA in fine art from Manchester Metropolitan University and a BA in fine art from Staffordshire University . Gbadamosi taught fine art as an honorary research fellow at the Slade School of Art and has also curated various group exhibitions.

#11919

David Aronson

#63678

Overall Influence

1923 - 2015 (92 years)

David Aronson was a painter and Professor of Art at Boston University. Biography Aronson was born in Šiluva, Lithuania in 1923 to an Orthodox Jewish family. His father was a rabbi. He taught at Boston University from 1955 to his death in 2015, where he formed the Fine Art Department. As an artist, he exhibited in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, Rome, Berlin and Copenhagen, among others. His work is represented in over forty museums.

#11920

Gireesh Gupchup

#151122

Overall Influence

Gireesh V. Gupchup is a health services researcher, and educational administrator. He currently serves as Vice President for Academic Innovation, Planning and Partnerships for Southern Illinois University. He previously served as Dean and Professor of the SIUE School of Pharmacy. His area of research encompasses developing, and evaluating pharmacy and health care services in underserved populations.

#11921

Haitao Wu

#185118

Overall Influence

#11922

Uche Okeke

#27851

Overall Influence

1933 - 2016 (83 years)

Christopher Uchefuna Okeke , also known as Uche Okeke , was an illustrator, painter, sculptor, and teacher. He was an art and aesthetic theorist, seminal to Nigerian modernism. Background Christopher Uchefuna Okeke was born on 30 April 1933 in Nimo, Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria, to Isaac Okonkwo Okeke and Monica Mgboye Okeke . Between 1940 and 1953, he attended St. Peter Claver's School, Kafanchan, Metropolitan College, Onitsha, and Bishop Shanahan College, Orlu, Nigeria, during which time he had already begun to demonstrate an avid interest in drawing and painting....

#11923

T. L. Burton

#52094

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

T. L. Burton is an emeritus professor at the University of Adelaide and a reputed scholar of medieval English literature, language, and dialectics. He is the editor of the two volume Sidrak and Bokkus, which once was one of the most popular books in Middle English. In addition to numerous publications on Middle English, Burton has also written books for a more general audience. He is a founding director of the Chaucer Studio, a non-profit organization which produces recordings in period pronunciation of Middle English texts and makes these available as instructional aids. Burton's current research interest is in the poetry of William Barnes.

#11924

Hananiah Harari

#43584

Overall Influence

1912 - 2000 (88 years)

Hananiah Harari was an American painter and illustrator. Life Harari was born Richard Falk Goldman, in Rochester, New York. He studied at the Syracuse University School of Fine Arts. He went to Paris in the 1930s, where he studied with Fernand Léger from 1932 to 1934; he also studied with Marcel Gromaire and André Lhote. Following a visit to Palestine, he returned to the United States in 1935.

#11925

John J O'Connor

#185155

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#11926

Dan Levy

#185171

Overall Influence

#11927

Danilo Ercolini

#185174

Overall Influence

#11928

Cornelius B. Murphy Jr.

#98519

Overall Influence

Cornelius B. Murphy Jr. is Professor of Environmental and Sustainable Systems at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry . From 2000 to 2013, he was the third President of SUNY-ESF. Previously, he was president and chief executive officer of O'Brien & Gere, a large environmental engineering consulting firm based in Syracuse, New York. He has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Syracuse University, and a B.A. in Chemistry from Saint Michael's College.

#11929

Tim Scott

#90287

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Tim Scott is a British sculptor known for his abstract sculptures made from transparent acrylic and steel. While studying architecture, Scott also studied sculpture part-time at Saint Martin's School of Art with Sir Anthony Caro, where he also later taught. Inspired by the example of David Smith, Scott began to make sculptures using materials such as fibreglass, glass, metal, and acrylic sheets.

#11930

Cecilia Metra

#45375

Overall Influence

Cecilia Metra is an electrical engineer at the University of Bologna in Italy. She was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2014 "for her contributions to the online testing and fault-tolerant design of digital circuits and systems".

#11931

Awad Haj Ali

#167897

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Awad Haj Ali Ahmed Is a Sudanese academic. He has been an educator, vice chancellor of Neelain University for more than ten years, and director of the Sudanese Central Bureau of Statistics. He was a member of the Pan-African Parliament , and a chairperson of the Eastern Caucus of the PAP.

#11932

Reginald Gammon

#98686

Overall Influence

1921 - 2005 (84 years)

Reginald Gammon was an American artist and member of the African American artist's collective, Spiral. Biography Gammon was born on March 31, 1921, in Philadelphia. He attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art. Gammon served in the United States Navy during World War II stationed in Guam from 1944 through 1946.

#11933

David R. Wallace

#103046

Overall Influence

1942 - 2012 (70 years)

David R. Wallace was an American mathematician and inventor. He is known for the Wallace algorithm as well as “Software Cloaking”, a patented method for hiding the internal operations of computer programs.

#11934

Lynne Parker

#83957

Overall Influence

Lynne Edwards Parker is Associate Vice Chancellor and Director of the AI Tennessee Initiative at the University of Tennessee. Previously, she was Deputy United States Chief Technology Officer and Founding Director of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office at the United States' White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She is an American roboticist specializing in multi-robot systems, swarm robotics, and distributed artificial intelligence.

#11935

Richard Anderson

#185259

Overall Influence

#11936

Lesley Wyborn

#129496

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Lesley Wyborn is an Australian geoscientist and geoinformatics specialist, with a focus in high performance computing for geography and online analytics. She is an Adjunct Fellow at the Australian National University.

#11937

Robert Geyer

#183339

Overall Influence

Robert Geyer is a British-based academic and Professor of Politics, Complexity, and Policy at Lancaster University. He is the former Head of the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster and has previously worked as Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Associate Dean for Engagement and Internationalisation and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the same institution. He has previously worked at the University of Liverpool.

#11938

Dimitri Hadzi

#72162

Overall Influence

1921 - 2006 (85 years)

Dimitri Hadzi was an American abstract sculptor who lived and worked in Rome, Italy for 25 years and later resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he also taught at Harvard University for over a decade.

#11939

Erwin Hauer

#46945

Overall Influence

1926 - 2017 (91 years)

Erwin Hauer was an Austrian-born American sculptor who studied first at Vienna's Academy of Applied Arts and later under Josef Albers at Yale. Hauer was an early proponent of modular constructivism and an associate of Norman Carlberg. Like Carlberg, he was especially known for his minimalist, repetitive pieces in the 1950s and 1960s.

#11940

Debbie Millman

#22499

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Debbie Millman is an American writer, educator, artist, curator, and designer who is best known as the host of the podcast Design Matters. She has authored six books and is the President Emeritus of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and chair, one of only five women to hold the position over 100 years. She co-founded the Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City with Steven Heller. She was previously the editorial and creative director of Print magazine. Her illustrations have appeared in many major publications, including New York Magazine, Design Observe...

#11941

Chuck Lorre

#110750

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Charles Michael Lorre is an American film and television director, writer, producer, and composer. Called the "King of Sitcoms", Lorre has created/co-created and produced the sitcoms Grace Under Fire , Cybill , Dharma & Greg , Two and a Half Men , The Big Bang Theory , Mike & Molly , Mom , Young Sheldon , Disjointed , The Kominsky Method , Bob Hearts Abishola , B Positive , United States of Al , and Bookie . He also served as an executive producer of Roseanne. Lorre won three Golden Globe Awards for his work on Roseanne, Cybill, and The Kominsky Method.

#11942

Joanne Pransky

#86107

Overall Influence

Joanne Pransky was an American robotics enthusiast and futurist who provided professional advice on using and marketing robotics devices. Her professional focus was on issues concerning human–robot interaction.

#11943

Chantal Zakari

#113747

Overall Influence

Chantal Zakari is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and art educator; a Turkish Levantine now residing in the Boston area. She is a full-time faculty member at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, where she chaired the Graphic Arts area from 1998 until 2015, and was an active faculty voice while the SMFA was undergoing the transition in its long-standing affiliation with Tufts University. She was an associate member of the Goat Island performance group from 1995 to 2009 and has served on the board of Belmont World Film.

#11944

Bartho Okolo

#107302

Overall Influence

Bartho Ndubuisi Okolo, is a Professor of Microbiology who served as the 13th Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He was preceded by Professor Osita Chinedu Nebo and succeeded by Professor Benjamin Chukwuma Ozumba. .

#11945

Chen Jin

#185291

Overall Influence

#11946

Adam Stone

#78546

Overall Influence

Adam Stone is an American professor and political scientist specializing in the area of American politics. Stone is an associate professor at Georgia State University's Perimeter College and a former president of the Georgia Political Science Association.

#11947

Peggy Weil

#36936

Overall Influence

Peggy Weil is an American artist working in digital media. Early life and education She graduated from Harvard University in 1976, and received a master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982.

#11948

Ulrike Müller

#149389

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Ulrike Müller is a contemporary visual artist. Müller is a member of the New York-based feminist genderqueer group LTTR as well as an editor of its eponymous journal. She also represented Austria at the Cairo Biennale in 2011. She is currently a professor and Co-Chair of Painting at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

#11949

Myra B. Cohen

#181898

Overall Influence

Myra B. Cohen is an American software engineer whose research focuses on software testing. She is Susan J. Rosowski Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and Professor and Lanh and Oanh Nguyen Chair in Software Engineering at Iowa State University.

#11950

Sandra K. Ellston

#119767

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Sandra K. Ellston, also published under the pen names Sandra K. Fischer and Sandra Mason is an American Shakespearean scholar and professor of English and writing at Eastern Oregon University, where she also served as dean of the college of arts and sciences and where she was recipient of the Woman of Vision and Courage Award.

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