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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#12051

Jose V. Lopez

#160228

Overall Influence

Jose V. Lopez is an American-Filipino Molecular Biologist. He has been a faculty and Professor of Biology at Nova Southeastern University . in Dania Beach, Florida since 2007. Lopez has contributed as co-founder of the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance , a community of scientists. He has also participated in the "Porifera - Tree of Life", "Earth Microbiome" and Earth Bio-genome Projects.

#12052

Gary Thomas

#74971

Overall Influence

1938 - 2008 (70 years)

Gary Thomas was the Chancellor of the University of Missouri–Rolla from 2000 to 2005. Career Thomas was the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey from 1990 to 1998 prior to his appointment at S&T. He was the Vice-President for Research and Graduate Studies from 1997 through 1998 and Vice-President for Academic Affairs from 1980 to 1990.

#12053

Laurence Arcadias

#94352

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

Laurence Arcadias is a French/American experimental animator working in the United States. She has directed and written several short films including Tempête dans une chambre à coucher , Dust Off and Cowboy Up!, and Bavure. She is a professor and previous chair of the animation department at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Her films have been exhibited and won awards at numerous international film festivals around the world. Arcadias and Juliette Marchand's stop motion film Tempête dans une chambre à coucher was short-listed for a 2013 César Award, the French equivalent of an Academy Award.

#12054

José Luis González Velarde

#117990

Overall Influence

José Luis González Velarde is a professor and researcher with the Tec de Monterrey, Monterrey Campus. González Velarde’s educational background consists of a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Tec de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey , a master's degree in mathematics from the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional , a master's degree in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California, Berkeley and a doctorate in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of Texas, Austin .

#12055

Joe Feddersen

#77253

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Joe Feddersen is a Colville sculptor, painter, photographer and mixed-media artist. He is known for creating artworks strong in geometric patterns reflective of what is seen in the environment, landscape and his Native American heritage.

#12056

M. Feroze Ahmed

M. Feroze Ahmed

#107081

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

M. Feroze Ahmed achieved excellence in teaching, engineering profession and scientific research and earned national and international recognition and awards as an eminent professor, civil engineer and scientist. He is the former vice-chancellor of Stamford University Bangladesh.

#12057

Serguei Lvov

#173982

Overall Influence

Serguei N. Lvov is Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering and Director of Electrochemical Technologies Program at the EMS Energy Institute of the Pennsylvania State University. He received a D.Sc. degree in Physical Chemistry at St. Petersburg State University of Russia in 1992. Prior to his tenure at Penn State he worked at St. Petersburg School of Mines and the Russian Academy of Science. He was visiting scholar at the University of Venice , the University of Delaware and the National Centre for Scientific Research at Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy . His main ...

#12058

Russ Heath

#95460

Overall Influence

1926 - 2018 (92 years)

Russell Heath Jr. , was an American artist best known for his comic book work, particularly his DC Comics war stories and his 1960s art for Playboy magazine's "Little Annie Fanny" feature. He also produced commercial art, two pieces of which, depicting Roman and Revolutionary War battle scenes for toy soldier sets, became familiar pieces of Americana after gracing the back covers of countless comic books from the early 1960s to early 1970s.

#12059

Mike Kelley

#150128

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Michael Kelley is an American television writer and producer and creator of television series What/If, Revenge and Swingtown. Early life Kelley was born in Chicago, growing up and attending school at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois until 1985. A classmate of his was musician Liz Phair, who he would later bring to the television scoring business.

#12060

Manindra Agrawal

#186018

Overall Influence

#12061

Amy Lansky

#186030

Overall Influence

Amy Lansky is an American academic. She was the director of the Office of National AIDS Policy. Education Lansky earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Swarthmore College. She holds doctoral and master's degrees in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

#12062

Robert Thomas

#96563

Overall Influence

1926 - 1999 (73 years)

Robert Thomas was a Welsh sculptor born in Cwmparc in the Rhondda Valley. He is best known for his work in bronze sculptures, many of which are on public display. He was one of the members of the 'Rhondda Group'.

#12063

Michael Roden

#135959

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Michael Roden is Professor and Chairman of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolic Disorders at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Director of the Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology at the University Hospital of Düsseldorf and Spokesman for the Executive Board and Scientific Director of the German Diabetes Center, the Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf .

#12064

Jaron Lanier

#176418

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer scientist, visual artist, computer philosophy writer, technologist, futurist, and composer of contemporary classical music. Considered a founder of the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and wired gloves. In the late 1990s, Lanier worked on applications for Internet2, and in the 2000s, he was a visiting scholar at Silicon Graphics and various universities. In 2006 he began to work at Microsoft, and from 2009 has worked at Microsoft Research as a...

#12065

Kate Calder

#169736

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Catherine A. "Kate" Calder is an American statistician who works as chair of Statistics and Data Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. She was previously a professor of statistics at Ohio State University. Calder earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Northwestern University in 1999, and completed her Ph.D. in statistics from Duke University in 2003 under the joint supervision of David Higdon and Michael L. Lavine. She joined the Ohio State faculty in 2003, and was promoted to full professor in 2015.

#12066

Ed Schrader

#72595

Overall Influence

Ed L. Schrader was the president of Brenau University, a university and women's college in Gainesville, Georgia established in 1878, from 2005 to 2019. He is a geologist by profession. Early life and education He is a native of Mississippi. He received a B.S. in geology, with a minor in chemistry, from Millsaps College in 1973. In 1975 he received an M.S. degree from the University of Tennessee. He earned a Ph.D. in geochemistry from Duke University in 1977.

#12067

Adam M. Gonzalez

#186058

Overall Influence

Adam M. Gonzalez is a leading scientific researcher in exercise nutrition with a special focus on multi-ingredient pre-workout supplements as they relate to exercise performance and body composition. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Allied Health and Kinesiology at Hofstra University. He holds a Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology from the University of Central Florida. In addition to his Ph.D, Dr. Gonzalez also earned a bachelor’s degree in Health and Exercise Science and a master’s in Health Science Education from The College of New Jersey. Dr. Gonzalez has seve...

#12068

Howard Bernard Gotlieb

#91943

Overall Influence

1926 - 2005 (79 years)

Howard Bernard Gotlieb, Ph.D. was an American archivist, and the founding director of Special Collections at Boston University, which was established as an archive center in 1963. In 2003, the center was renamed The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center in his honor. Gotlieb acquired substantial holdings to the archive from individuals who played a significant part in the fields of journalism, literature, film, and political and religious movements. The archive includes historical documents donated by individuals such as letters written by Bette Davis, important papers from Martin Luther King Jr.

#12069

Miguel Herrero Uceda

Miguel Herrero Uceda

#127185

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Miguel Herrero Uceda is a writer, lecturer and natural scientist committed to the defence of the environment and the conservation of popular traditional culture. He has a PhD in artificial intelligence and was a professor at Universidad Complutense of Madrid. He is a promoter of the natural philosophy "arbotherapy", a therapy to combat the stress and the anxiety generated by modern world.

#12070

Howard Davis

#117441

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Howard Davis is an American writer and professor of architecture at the University of Oregon in Eugene. A native of New York City, he studied physics at Cooper Union and at Northwestern University and received a master's degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked with Christopher Alexander. He has worked on projects in the Pacific Northwest, India, England, Mexico and Israel.

#12071

Miguel A Quiñones

#186059

Overall Influence

#12072

Uta Klement

#177457

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Uta Klement is a senior professor at Chalmers University of Technology who works in the field of materials science with emphasis on electron microscopy. Education She completed her diploma in material physics in the year 1987 from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen,Germany. The title of her thesis is Recrystallization experiments on <111> tensile deformed copper single crystals supervised by Prof. P. Haasen. She then carried on to do a PhD in the same university and the title of her PhD thesis is 'In-situ HVEM-investigations of the early stages of recrystallization in Cu-0.2 at.% Mn-single crystals', also supervised by Prof.

#12073

Rebecca Moore

#56817

Overall Influence

Rebecca Moore is an American software engineer, director of Google Earth, and director and founder of the Google Earth Outreach and Google Earth Engine computer mapping projects. Early life and career Moore grew up in Roslyn, New York, with one sister and two brothers. Her father, Earle K. Moore, was a communications and civil rights lawyer in Manhattan, who won a landmark case establishing that broadcast stations must serve the interests of their viewers. Her brother, Frank C. Moore, was an artist and activist, including being an originator of the Red Ribbon project for AIDS solidarity. She...

#12074

Chris Ray

#186067

Overall Influence

#12075

Mack McFarland

#105225

Overall Influence

Mack McFarland is a curator and artist living in Portland, Oregon. He is the Director of Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at Pacific Northwest College of Art. As the curator for PNCA, McFarland has worked with several Tactical media artists, including The Yes Men, Critical Art Ensemble, Brian Holmes and Eva & Franco Mattes. McFarland's other projects with PNCA include solo exhibitions with Luc Tuymans, Wangechi Mutu, Joe Sacco, Cauleen Smith, Sandow Birk, James Rosenquist, David Horvitz, Sue Coe, Thomas Zummer, and many others. His work focuses on issues of class, representation, informa...

#12076

Isabelle Aubert

#184131

Overall Influence

Isabelle Aubert is a Canadian neuroscientist with expertise in developing regenerative therapies for neurodegenerative disorders . She is a senior scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute , and is a professor in laboratory medicine and pathobiology at the University of Toronto. In 2019, Aubert was appointed as a Canada Research Chair in Brain Repair and Regeneration.

#12077

Carmen Domene

#185100

Overall Influence

Carmen Domene is a Spanish academic who is a professor of chemistry at the University of Bath. Her research makes use of computational simulations to understand biological systems and processes. She was awarded the 2020 International Society of Quantum Biology and Pharmacology Loew Award and the 2023 Royal Society of Chemistry Corday-Morgan Prize.

#12078

Arthur Thrall

#85732

Overall Influence

1926 - 2015 (89 years)

Arthur Thrall was an American painter and printmaker. His works have been shown in more than 500 exhibits in the United States and abroad including England, Finland, Germany, and U.S. embassies. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel art critic James Auer said Thrall is one to "defy the dictates of fashion" and "whose high-styled uses of calligraphy rival those of the great age of the Ottomans." His work explores the abstract qualities of the alphabet and recalls "the elegant hand scripts in ceremonial documents and proclamations of an earlier age," re-creating "the tensions and rhythms emerging from a ...

#12079

David Grove

#85238

Overall Influence

1935 - 2023 (88 years)

David C. Grove was an American anthropologist, archaeologist and academic, known for his contributions and research into the Preclassic period cultures of Mesoamerica, in particular those of the Mexican altiplano and Gulf Coast regions. A lecturer and professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for some thirty years, Grove retained a position as Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at UIUC and was also designated a Courtesy Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida.

#12080

Masanobu Endō

#175070

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

is a Japanese game designer, president of Game Studio and Mobile & Game Studio, and the director of Digital Games Research Association Japan. He formerly worked for Namco, where he created arcade games and is best known for Xevious and The Tower of Druaga, which were important titles in the scrolling shooter and action role-playing game genres, respectively.

#12081

Theodore M. Brown

#80867

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Theodore M. Brown is a professor of public health and policy, medical humanities and history at the University of Rochester. His area of research is the history of health policy in America and he specializes in the intellectual, institutional, and political histories of medicine.

#12082

Lezanne Ooi

#179070

Overall Influence

Lezanne Ooi is an Australian neuroscientist who is Professor and Head of Neurodevelopment at the University of Wollongong. Her research considers the development of cellular imaging techniques to understand neurodegenerative disease.

#12083

Curtis Dunkel

#183964

Overall Influence

Curtis Scott Dunkel is an American psychologist and professor in the Department of Psychology at Western Illinois University, where he was granted tenure in August 2012. His research has covered topics such as death anxiety and the general factor of personality.

#12084

Eivind Osnes

#94642

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Eivind Osnes is a Norwegian physicist. He took his dr.philos. degree at the University of Oslo in 1966. His specialty became theoretical nuclear physics. He became docent at the University of Oslo in 1977 and professor in 1985. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 2009 he received the King's Medal of Merit in gold. Osnes is one out of two Norwegian delegates to the CERN Council.

#12085

Eleonora Bilotta

#185632

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Eleonora Bilotta is an Italian researcher into complex systems and human–computer interaction, including educational entertainment, personal robots, and the use of chaos theory, cellular automata, and dynamical systems in the synthetic design of music and jewelry, especially focusing on the chaotic behavior of Chua's circuit.

#12086

Philippa Martin

#150045

Overall Influence

Philippa Anne Martin is a New Zealand electrical engineering academic and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. She is currently a full professor at the University of Canterbury.

#12087

Jane K. Hart

#174078

Overall Influence

Jane K Hart is a Professor of Physical Geography in the School of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton UK. She has a BSc in Physical Geography from the University of Reading and a PhD in Glaciology from the University of East Anglia. She was Lecturer in Physical Geography at the University of Manchester. Currently, she is EGU General Secretary, President of the Quaternary Research Association and Chair of the "Funds for Women Graduates".

#12088

Melanie Yazzie

#73625

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Melanie A. Yazzie is a Navajo sculptor, painter, printmaker, and professor. She teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Early life and education Melanie A. Yazzie was born in 1966 in Ganado, Arizona, United States. She is Navajo of the , born for . She grew up on the Navajo Nation. Melanie Yazzie is of the Salt Water Clan born for the Bitter Water Clan.

#12089

Karine Auclair

#109779

Overall Influence

Karine Auclair is a professor of chemistry at McGill University in Montréal, Canada. She is the current Canada Research Chair in Antimicrobials and Green Enzymes. Education and career Auclair completed a Bachelor of Science in chemistry at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi in 1994, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in organic chemistry at the University of Alberta in 1999. She then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco from 1999 to 2001.

#12090

Raj Mohanty

#180944

Overall Influence

Pritiraj Mohanty is a physicist and entrepreneur. He is a professor of physics at Boston University. He is most known for his work on quantum coherence, mesoscopic physics, nanomechanical systems, and nanotechnology with a recent focus on biosensing and nanomechanical computing.

#12091

Lucy Orta

#40502

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Lucy Orta is an English contemporary visual artist living and working between London and Paris where she has resided since 1991. After graduating with an honours degree in fashion-knitwear design, Orta began practising as a visual artist in 1991. Her sculptural work investigates the boundaries between the body and architecture, exploring their common social factors such as communication and identity. Orta's most emblematic works include: Refuge Wear and Body Architecture , portable architecture, lightweight and autonomous structures representing issues of survival. Nexus Architecture are par...

#12092

Rick Hayes-Roth

Rick Hayes-Roth

#179084

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Frederick Hayes-Roth is an American computer scientist and educator. His principal work focuses on how to use computing processes to winnow data down to only those information items that are valuable to the receiver, using technology to deliver those items, and in designing IT systems structured for this task. Frederick Hayes-Roth is also known as Rick Roth and has published under the names Rick Hayes-Roth and Frederick Roth.

#12093

Alanis Obomsawin

Alanis Obomsawin

#81818

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Alanis Obomsawin, is an Abenaki American-Canadian filmmaker, singer, artist, and activist primarily known for her documentary films. Born in New Hampshire, United States and raised primarily in Quebec, Canada, she has written and directed many National Film Board of Canada documentaries on First Nations issues. Obomsawin is a member of Film Fatales independent women filmmakers.

#12094

Martin Albrecht

#186172

Overall Influence

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Hiroshi Suzuki

#186183

Overall Influence

#12096

David Andreoff Evans

#182511

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

David Andreoff Evans is an American scientist in the field of computational linguistics, best known for his research into indexing using natural language processing, and in ontology learning, especially in medical informatics.

#12097

Donald Geoffrey Charlton

#66343

Overall Influence

1925 - 1995 (70 years)

Donald Geoffrey Charlton was a Professor of French at the University of Warwick from 1964 to 1989. Education and career Charlton was educated at Bolton School and briefly went on to study philosophy at St Edmund Hall, Oxford before joining the Royal Navy as an interpreter for French and German.

#12098

Luke Him Sau

#108074

Overall Influence

1904 - 1991 (87 years)

Luke Him Sau was a Chinese architect who practiced in the early and mid twentieth century. During the late 1920s, Luke was one of the first Chinese students to be trained at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, and studied under Eric Rawlsham Jarrett, Charles Stanley White, Stephen Rowland Pierce and Eric Leslie Bird.

#12099

Suzan Shown Harjo

Suzan Shown Harjo

#32773

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Suzan Shown Harjo is an advocate for Native American rights. She is a poet, writer, lecturer, curator, and policy advocate who has helped Native peoples recover more than one million acres of tribal lands. After co-producing the first American Indian news show in the nation for WBAI radio while living in New York City, and producing other shows and theater, in 1974 she moved to Washington, D.C., to work on national policy issues. She served as Congressional liaison for Indian affairs in the President Jimmy Carter administration and later as president of the National Council of American Indi...

#12100

Dave Thomas

#186227

Overall Influence

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