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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#12101

James C. Tsai

#78423

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

James C. Tsai is a physician and scientist who serves as president of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai. He also serves as the Delafield-Rodgers Professor of Ophthalmology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and chair of the department of ophthalmology at the Mount Sinai Health System.

#12102

Tommy Makem

#73536

Overall Influence

1932 - 2007 (75 years)

Thomas Makem was an Irish folk musician, artist, poet and storyteller. He was best known as a member of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. He played the long-necked 5-string banjo, tin whistle, low whistle, guitar, bodhrán and bagpipes, and sang in a distinctive baritone. He was sometimes known as "The Bard of Armagh" and "The Godfather of Irish Music".

#12103

Devin Terhune

#94278

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Devin B. Terhune is a cognitive neuroscientist, a Reader at King's College London, director of its TAS Laboratory and frequent public speaker. He is primarily known for his work on suggestion, time perception, hypnosis, and different features of awareness, as well as his public lectures on these subjects.

#12104

Robert Bathurst

Robert Bathurst

#84217

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Robert Guy Bathurst is an English actor. Bathurst was born in The Gold Coast in 1957, where his father was working as a management consultant. In 1959 his family moved to Ballybrack, Dublin, Ireland and Bathurst attended school in Killiney and later was enrolled at Headfort, an Irish boarding school. In 1966, the family moved back to England and Bathurst transferred to Worth School in Sussex, where he took up amateur dramatics. At the age of 18, he read law at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and joined the Footlights group.

#12105

Elizabeth Jessup

#84268

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Redding Jessup is an American computer scientist specializing in numerical linear algebra and the generalized minimal residual method. She is a professor emerita of computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder.

#12106

Donna Pastore

#86264

Overall Influence

Donna L. Pastore a professor of sport management at Ohio State University, in the School of Physical Activity & Educational Services. In addition, Pastore is the coordinator of Sport and Exercise Management at Ohio State and is a past president of the National Association for Girls and Women in Sport.

#12107

Robert Wolfe

#62321

Overall Influence

1921 - 2014 (93 years)

Robert Wolfe was a World War II U.S. Army officer, historian, and retired senior archivist of the US National Archives. He was wounded in both the Pacific and European Theaters of Operation. He commanded a recon team and also an anti-landmine platoon. He was a subject-matter expert on captured Nazi war documents. Wolfe worked for 34 years at the Archives, functioning as its senior specialist for captured German and related records.

#12108

David W. Chappell

#37620

Overall Influence

1940 - 2004 (64 years)

David Wellington Chappell was a professor of Buddhist studies whose specialties were Chinese Buddhist traditions and interreligious dialogue. After receiving a B.A. from Mount Allison University and a B.D. from McGill University, he completed a Ph.D. in the history of religions at Yale University. His subsequent teaching career included three decades as a professor of religion at the University of Hawaii, where he founded the journal Buddhist-Christian Studies in 1981, edited it through 1985, then helped found the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies in 1987. His publications include Buddh...

#12109

Joseph F. Sackett

#50986

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Joseph Frederick Sackett is an American clinical neuroradiologist and professor of radiology. During his academic career he published 74 papers in refereed journals, served as a visiting professor for 32 semesters and wrote 11 chapters in radiology textbooks. The University of Wisconsin–Madison established an endowed chair, the Joseph F. Sackett Professorship in Radiology, in honor of him.

#12110

Pat Lipsky

#32109

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Pat Lipsky is an American painter associated with Lyrical Abstraction and Color Field Painting. Education Lipsky grew up in New York City. She graduated with a BFA from Cornell University in 1963, receiving an MFA from the Graduate Program in Painting at Manhattan's Hunter College, where she studied with the painter and sculptor Tony Smith.

#12111

Judy Liu

#140596

Overall Influence

Judy Shih-Hwa Liu is the Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Professor of Ophthalmology and Neuroscience at Brown University. She works on the cortical malformations that cause epilepsy. Education and early career Liu earned a Bachelor of Science at Yale University. She moved to New York for her graduate studies, and completed a PhD and MD at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After her MD she completed a medical internship in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She was appointed as a neurological resident at Beth Israel in 2001.

#12112

Graeme Sullivan

#54967

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Graeme Sullivan is an Australian artist, author, art theorist, and educator. He has contributed work to numerous exhibitions and events and is known for his international "Streetworks" project that plants public art in unusual urban locales. He authored the books Art Practice as Research and Seeing Australia: Views of Artists and Artwriters . He has served as an editorial board member and consultant to the International Journal of Art & Design Education, the International Journal of Education and the Arts, and Studies in Material Thinking. Sullivan, who graduated from Ohio State University in...

#12113

Lawrence Gowing

#34245

Overall Influence

1918 - 1991 (73 years)

Sir Lawrence Burnett Gowing was an English artist, writer, curator and teacher. Initially recognised as a portrait and landscape painter, he quickly rose to prominence as an art educator, writer, and eventually, curator and museum trustee. He was described as a prominent member of the "English Establishment". As a student of art history he was largely self-taught.

#12114

Emma Amos

#45465

Overall Influence

1938 - 2020 (82 years)

Emma Amos was a postmodern African-American painter and printmaker. Early life Amos was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1937 to India DeLaine Amos and Miles Green Amos. She also has an older brother named Larry. Amos took an interest in art at an early age, creating "masses of paper dolls" and learning figure drawing from issues of Esquire and the art of Alberto Vargas, was painting the figure by the age of nine. Her mother had aspirations of Amos studying with Hale Woodruff, but he did not accept many private students and left the area before she had the opportunity to study with him.

#12115

Han Meijer

#107024

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Henricus Eduard Hubertus Meijer is a Dutch professor emeritus of Polymer Technology in the Eindhoven University of Technology; he was formerly the scientific director of the laboratory. His research interests include structure development during flow and structure-property relations, micro-rheology and microfluidics, micro-macro-mechanics, modelling of polymer processing and design in polymers.

#12116

Charles Cranfield

#91846

Overall Influence

1915 - 2015 (100 years)

Charles Ernest Burland Cranfield, was a British theologian, academic, and Christian minister. Biography Cranfield was born in Winchmore Hill, London on 13 September 1915 to parents Charles Ernest Cranfield and Beatrice Mary, née Tubbs . Cranfield attended Mill Hill School and gained a first class degree in classics in 1936 from Jesus College, Cambridge. he went on to study Theology at Wesley House, Cambridge until 1939.

#12117

Loredana Sasso

#169166

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Loredana Sasso is professor of nursing at the University of Genoa, Italy. She was president of the European Federation of Nursing Regulators Brussels office from 2006 to 2009 during which period she worked on the creation of the Code of Ethics and Conduct for European Nursing. She is Founding President of the first Italian Sigma nursing chapter Alpha Alpha Beta based at the University of Genoa. In July 2022, she was appointed Scientific Director of the Centre of Excellence for Nursing Research and Development - Italian National Federation of Nursing Orders in Rome, Italy.

#12118

Tava Olsen

#139066

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Tava Maryanne Lennon Olsen is a New Zealand academic specialising in supply chain management. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career After a 1994 PhD titled Response-time approximations for multi-server polling models, with manufacturing applications at the Stanford University, she worked at the University of Michigan and the Washington University in St Louis before moving to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor.

#12119

Mildred Dunnock

Mildred Dunnock

#73518

Overall Influence

1901 - 1991 (90 years)

Mildred Dorothy Dunnock was an American stage and screen actress. She was twice nominated for an Academy Award: first Death of a Salesman in 1951, then Baby Doll in 1956. Early life Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Dunnock graduated from Western High School. She developed an interest in theater while she was a student at Goucher College where she was a member of Alpha Phi sorority and the Agora dramatic society. After graduating, she taught English at Friends School of Baltimore and helped with productions of plays there.

#12120

Ruth McVey

#37855

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Ruth Thomas McVey is an American scholar of Indonesia and Southeast Asia known especially for her writings on Communism and the Indonesian Communist Party. With Benedict Anderson, she co-wrote the Cornell Paper, a 1966 work which examined the failed September 30 Movement in Indonesia. She has written and edited a number of books about Indonesian and Southeast Asian politics, including The rise of Indonesian communism and The Soviet view of the Indonesian revolution .

#12121

Efraim Lev

#100731

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Efraim Lev is a professor in the Department of Israel Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Haifa. He is the immediate past Head of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research of the Cairo Genizah at the University of Haifa, and the Department of Humanities and Arts at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He also headed the Eshkol Department of Multi-Disciplinary Studies for special programs and undergraduate degrees in the University of Haifa’s Faculty of Humanities . Lev specializes in the history of medicine and pharmacology in the Middle East, in particu...

#12122

Lumír Krejčí

#80721

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Lumír Krejčí is a Czech biochemist. His research is focused on regulatory processes involved in maintaining genome integrity. Currently, as Associate Professor in biochemistry, he leads the laboratory of recombination and DNA repair at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, at Masaryk University in Brno.

#12123

Akhilesh Pandey

#33979

Overall Influence

Akhilesh Pandey is an Indian-American proteomicist and a Professor at Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Center for Individualized Medicine of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. He is also the founding director and chief scientific advisor of the Institute of Bioinformatics in Bangalore, India.

#12124

Robert Beatty

#138425

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Robert Beatty is an American artist and musician based in Lexington, Kentucky, best known for his noise band Hair Police, his solo project Three Legged Race, and most recently for his work designing album covers, including Tame Impala's Currents , Kesha's Rainbow , and limited-edition artwork for The Weeknd's Dawn FM .

#12125

Kendra Stearns O'Donnell

#99489

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Kendra Stearns O'Donnell is an American educator and painter who served as the 12th principal of Phillips Exeter Academy. Biography She attended Emma Willard School, graduating in 1960, Barnard College, graduating in 1965, and Columbia University, where she received an M.A. and Ph.D. degree in English. As an assistant professor of English at Princeton University, entering the faculty in 1971, she received, as the first woman to do so, the title of university marshal. She served as a program officer at the Markle Foundation, the program director of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, and as a consultant and special assistant to the president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

#12126

Morten Nielsen

#186434

Overall Influence

#12127

Hessam Nowzari

#37642

Overall Influence

Hessam Nowzari is the Director of the University of Southern California Advanced Periodontics program, since 1995, and is a diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology. Biography Nowzari was born in Shiraz, Iran and was the youngest director at the University of Southern California Advanced Periodontics program where he established a program that mirror's Nowzari's stances on key issues in periodontology.

#12128

Ralph W. Conant

#75171

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

Ralph Wendell Conant was a writer and researcher in the areas of social policy, metropolitan governance, and regional planning. Conant is also the former president of Shimer College and Unity College.

#12129

Bishal Nath Upreti

#126628

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Prof. Dr. Bishal Nath Upreti is a geologist and an Academician of the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology. He is the former Head of Central Department of Geology and Department of Geology at Tri-Chandra Campus, and also the former Dean of Institute of Science and Technology, Tribhuvan University. He is the Fellow and past Council Member of The World Academy of Sciences and Foreign Fellow of the Zambia Academy of Sciences.

#12130

Sam Hay

#185926

Overall Influence

Sam Hay is a chemist from New Zealand and a Reader in the Department of Chemistry at The University of Manchester. His research in general is based on computational chemistry and theoretical chemistry, specifically on the areas of In silico Enzymology, quantum mechanics roles in biological processes, kinetic modelling of complex reactions and high pressure spectroscopy.

#12131

Janek Ratnatunga

#90458

Overall Influence

Janek Ratnatunga is a Sri Lankan born Australian academic. A Professor of Accounting, he is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants , and an Adjunct Professor of Accounting at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. Formerly, he was the Dean and Head of School of Commerce in University of South Australia and prior to that the Head of the Department of Accounting & Finance and Chair in Business Accounting at Monash University.

#12132

Galina Rumiantseva

Galina Rumiantseva

#68844

Overall Influence

1927 - 2004 (77 years)

Galina Alexeevna Rumiantseva was a Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg . She was regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.

#12133

Thomas Hildebrandt

#185924

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Thomas B. Hildebrandt is a German veterinarian researcher dedicated to species conservation. He heads the Department of Reproduction Management at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin and holds a full professorship for Wildlife Reproduction Medicine at the veterinary faculty of the Freie Universität Berlin.

#12134

Anirban Banerjee

#186474

Overall Influence

#12135

Zemin Wang

#186480

Overall Influence

#12136

Rosemarie Trockel

Rosemarie Trockel

#9403

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Rosemarie Trockel is a German conceptual artist. She has made drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos and installations, and has worked in mixed media. From 1985, she made pictures using knitting-machines. She is a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf in Nordrhein-Westfalen.

#12137

Bita Daryabari

#156697

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Bita Daryabari is an Iranian-American philanthropist, entrepreneur and computer scientist. She is the founder of several community organizations which focus on Persian immigrants in society and arts in the United States. Daryabari has provided financial assistance to various educational institutions for research on the Iranian studies in higher education, including endowments to Stanford, Pembroke College, U.C. Davis, and U.C. Berkeley. She has a named Chair at U.C. Davis in Persian Language and Literature and at U.C. Berkeley in Iranian Studies.

#12138

Anthony Liekens

#86154

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Anthony Liekens is a Belgian informaticist, biologist, inventor and educator. Life and career Anthony Liekens obtained his master's in computer science at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2000 with extra curricular courses at the University of Antwerp and obtained his PhD in biomedical technology at Eindhoven University of Technology in 2005.

#12139

Thomas Keller

#186503

Overall Influence

#12140

Frits van Griensven

#183921

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Godefridus Johannes Petrus "Frits" van Griensven is a pioneering Dutch scientist in epidemiology, sociology and public health. Most of his work is on addressing the HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men and other HIV key populations.

#12141

David Henry

#186511

Overall Influence

#12142

Elizabeth A. Wilson

#182494

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Elizabeth A. Wilson is a Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Emory University. She is a scholar of feminist science studies, and her work brings together psychoanalytic theory, affect theory, feminist and queer theory, and neurobiology. She is the author of Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition , Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body , Affect and Artificial Intelligence , and Gut Feminism .

#12143

Stephanie A. White

#158097

Overall Influence

Stephanie Ann White is an American neuroscientist who is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research looks to understand how social interactions impact the brain. She serves as Director of the Neural Systems and Behavior programme at the Marine Biological Laboratory.

#12144

Bernard Smith

#77862

Overall Influence

1916 - 2011 (95 years)

Bernard William Smith was an Australian art historian, art critic and academic, considered the founding father of Australian art history, and one of the country's most important thinkers. His book Place, Taste and Tradition: a Study of Australian Art Since 1788 is a key text in Australian art history, and influence on Robert Hughes. Smith was associated with the Communist Party of Australia, and after leaving the party remained a prominent left-wing intellectual and Marxist thinker. Following the death of his wife in 1989, he sold much of their art collection to establish the Kate Challis RAK...

#12145

Walter Becker

#186553

Overall Influence

#12146

Sean M. McDonough

#119345

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Sean M. McDonough is an American professor of New Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, and Chair of the Biblical Studies Department at Pacific Theological College.

#12147

Umaru Gomwalk

#105378

Overall Influence

Umara D. Gomwalk is a Nigerian academic. He was the first Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Technology Owerri and the 10th Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He was also professor emeritus of Medicine of University of Nigeria Nsukka. He preceded Ginigeme Francis Mbanefoh as the sole administrator of the institution. His administration had crises to deal with from its take over of VC role from Oleka Udeala until handing over in 1999 with Ginigeme Francis Mbanefoh. Gomwalk was at various times a teacher and Chairman, Presidential Advisory Council and the Governing Council of the Nigerian National Merit Award.

#12148

Umaru Shehu

#47781

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Umaru Shehu was a Nigerian physician and academic administrator. He held significant positions in several universities, including the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Ahmadu Bello University, and the University of Maiduguri. He was the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria .

#12149

Yuanyuan Zhou

#183275

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Yuanyuan Zhou is a Chinese and American computer scientist and entrepreneur. She is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where she holds the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Mobile Computing. Her research concerns software reliability, including the use of data mining to automatically detect software bugs and flexible system designs that can adapt to hardware platform variations. She is also the founder of three start-up companies, Emphora, Pattern Insight, and Whova.

#12150

Fannie Gaston-Johansson

#186584

Overall Influence

Fannie Jean Gaston-Johansson is an American professor of nursing. She is a professor emerita and university distinguished professor at Johns Hopkins University. Gaston-Johansson researched health disparities, pain management, and coping strategies in women breast cancer patients. Gaston-Johansson was the first African-American woman tenured full professor at Johns Hopkins University. She previously served as a dean and full professor at University of Gothenburg and an associate professor at University of Nebraska Medical Center. Gaston-Johansson was named a Living Legend of the American Academ...

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