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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#12151

Sofia Quaglioni

#135169

Overall Influence

Sofia Quaglioni is a nuclear physicist. She is Deputy Group Leader at the Nuclear Data and Theory Group in the Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory . Biography Quaglioni completed her undergraduate degree from the University of Trento, Italy, and then PhD from the same institution in 2005. She was then a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arizona. She joined LLNL in 2006.

#12152

Cherry A. Murray

Cherry A. Murray

#53465

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Cherry A. Murray is an American academic who is professor of physics and the director of the Biosphere2 Institute at the University of Arizona at Tucson. She is the Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy emerita at, and former dean of, the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences .

#12153

Joshua Jacobs

#186590

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Horst Gläsker

#97045

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Horst Gläsker is a German artist. His work is a symbiosis of music, dance, theatre, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and architecture. Development From 1963 to 1966 Horst Gläsker did an apprenticeship as a showcase designer and in the following years up to 1968 he worked as poster artist. From 1970 to 1973 he visited a course of lectures and did the university-entrance diploma. Parallel to this he was active as a musician. During the 60s he and his 4 brothers were in a dance combo and in the 70s he was involved with diverse Kraut-rock groups of the era. At the end of the 70s he began to build sound sculptures and to make music performances.

#12155

Thomas Weber

#186600

Overall Influence

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Karen Devine

#61481

Overall Influence

Karen Dragon Devine is an American computer scientist specializing in high-performance technical computing. She is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Laboratories. At Sandia, she is part of the development team for the Zoltan and Trilinos scientific computing packages.

#12157

Cliff Wang

#186632

Overall Influence

Cliff Wang is a researcher at North Carolina State university. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for his leadership in trusted computing and communication systems.

#12158

Mark Milloff

#104479

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Mark Milloff is an internationally exhibited American painter and art professor. He is best known for his heavily layered oil paintings. Work Mark attended and graduated from Connecticut College with a Bachelor of Arts and Maryland Institute College of Art with his Master of Fine Arts. He has been exhibiting his work for over thirty years beginning with exhibitions at the Alan Stone Gallery in New York City, while he was still in graduate school. At present Milloff is a professor of art at the Rhode Island School of Design, where among his students has been Jordan Wolfson.

#12159

Thomas F. George

Thomas F. George

#46330

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Thomas F. George is chancellor and professor of chemistry and physics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, George earned a bachelor of arts degree with a double major in chemistry and mathematics from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, then a master of science and a doctor of philosophy degree in theoretical chemistry from Yale University. He was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, before taking the St. Louis job in 2003, and has announced his intention to retire from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in September, 2019. He is married to Barbara Harbach, chair of the University of Missouri-St.

#12160

Alan Cooper

#20624

Overall Influence

Alan Cooper is an American religious scholar and former musician who was the provost of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America , an academic institution that teaches Jewish studies and one of the centers for Conservative Judaism. He is also the Elaine Ravich Professor of Jewish Studies at JTS.

#12161

Uta Barth

#56076

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Uta Barth is a contemporary German-American photographer whose work addresses themes such as perception, optical illusion and non-place. Her early work emerged in the late 1980s and 1990s, "inverting the notion of background and foreground" in photography and bringing awareness to a viewer's attention to visual information with in the photographic frame. Her work is as much about vision and perception as it is about the failure to see, the faith humans place in the mechanics of perception, and the precarious nature of perceptual habits. Barth's says this about her art practice: “The question ...

#12162

Anthony Stockwell

#75878

Overall Influence

Professor Anthony John "Tony" Stockwell, FRAS is a British academic. He is best known for his research into the history of British imperialism and decolonisation in Southeast Asia. Professor Stockwell was appointed President of the Royal Asiatic Society from 2018-2021, having previously served in that capacity from 2000-2003 and 2006-2009. In 1989, he became joint editor of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. In 2002, he became Chairman of the Friends of The National Archives.

#12163

Robert M. Ellis

#91404

Overall Influence

1922 - 2014 (92 years)

Robert M. Ellis was an American artist. His professional career spanned six decades as an artist, educator, and museum director, including eight years as Curator of Education at the Pasadena Art Museum in California, twenty-three years on the art faculty of University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, and ten years as director of UNM's Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico. His work is in numerous museum collections, including the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, and Roswell Museum and Art Center. Apart from his distinguished career as a painter, E...

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Aileen Plant

#116984

Overall Influence

1940 - 2007 (67 years)

Aileen Joy Plant was a leading Australian infectious diseases epidemiologist. She was professor of international health at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. Born in the Victorian country town of Warragul, the fourth of eight children, her parents had a car dealership and petrol station. When she was 13, the family moved to a farm near Denmark on the south coast of Western Australia. She left school at 14 to work in a bank, and later completed high school. In her early 20s, she began a medical degree at the University of Western Australia.

#12165

Awang Bulgiba Awang Mahmud

#122501

Overall Influence

Awang Bulgiba bin Awang Mahmud is a Malaysian epidemiologist and physician based at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya. Biography Awang Bulgiba is the first Malaysian doctor to be awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Health Information. Prof. Awang Bulgiba is also the first to hold four educational fellowships at the UK Faculty of Public Health, Malaysian Public Health Medicine, the Malaysian Academy of Medicine and the Academy of Sciences. He also holds the position of Secretary-General of the Malaysian Academy of Sciences and President of the Asia-Pacific Public Health Consortium.

#12166

Virginia A. Myers

#110446

Overall Influence

1927 - 2015 (88 years)

Virginia A. Myers was an American artist, professor, and inventor. She was born in Greencastle, Indiana, and grew up with her parents and younger sister mostly in Cleveland, Ohio, where her father taught at various colleges and schools.

#12167

S. M. Nazrul Islam

#71792

Overall Influence

S. M. Nazrul Islam is a Bangladeshi academic. He served as the 11th Vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology . Education Islam earned his bachelor's from East Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology in 1969. He then joined in the Department of Mechanical Engineering as a Lecturer and later he completed his master's from BUET. He obtained his Ph.D. from University of Windsor.

#12168

Robert Gaskins

#115689

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Robert Gaskins is an American software developer. He is one of the creators of PowerPoint, and an expert and author on the history of the English concertina. Education and professional work Gaskins was educated in Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley, and subsequently did interdisciplinary graduate study in literature and computing. and also silly man course of California

#12169

Raúl Rojas

#186667

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Roberta Gottlieb

#56931

Overall Influence

Roberta Anne Gottlieb is an American oncologist, academic, and researcher. She is a Professor, and Vice-Chair of Translational Medicine in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.

#12171

Jerry Harris

#84525

Overall Influence

1945 - 2016 (71 years)

Jerry Harris was an abstract sculptor, collagist, and writer. Harris was primarily a constructivist sculptor, working in media such as wood, stone, bronze, fiberglass, clay, metal, mixed media , and collage.

#12172

William H. Robinson

#171647

Overall Influence

William Hugh Robinson is an American engineer who is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Vice Provost for Academic at Vanderbilt University. His research considers sophisticated computer systems for consumer and industrial use. He is an advocate for improving access to engineering, and leads several investigations into programmes that better support people from marginalised groups.

#12173

Barbara Bolt

#82145

Overall Influence

Barbara Bolt is an Australian academic and artist. She is the current director of the Victorian College of the Arts which is part of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne. She is a research theorist her research investigates art theory and criticism , art as research . Her art practice investigates the material possibilities of painting in a digital age and the relationship between painting and light . She was on the executive board of the international Society for Artistic Research , which produces the Journal of Artistic Research and is a member of the editorial...

#12174

Mike O'Brien

#100370

Overall Influence

Mike O'Brien is the former president and co-founder of ArenaNet and executive producer of its games Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2. He led the design and content creation teams of the original Guild Wars.

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Barry Joseph Smyth

#186689

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Augusto Sampaio

#177651

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Augusto Cezar Alves Sampaio is a Brazilian computer scientist who works with formal methods and language semantics. Augusto Sampaio from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. He graduated from the Centro de Informática at the Federal University of Pernambuco . He undertook his PhD studies under the supervision of Prof. Sir Tony Hoare at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory . In 2013 Sampaio became Commander of the Scientific Merit Order, awarded by the Brazilian Science and Technology Ministry. In July 2016 Sampaio received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of York, UK.

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Yuval Golan

#120350

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Yuval Golan is an Israeli materials scientist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev . Golan, a professor of materials engineering, studies materials at the nanoscale level and focuses on their synthesis, characterization and applications. Golan is the Director of the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, and chairman of the synchrotron committee of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

#12178

David Childs

#27997

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

David Haslam Childs FRSA is a British academic and political historian, who is Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Nottingham. His research chiefly concerns the modern German state and the field of German studies, and helping the public develop a greater knowledge of the history and politics of the former East and West Germany.

#12179

Fadi Chehadé

#172868

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Fadi Chehadé is an information technology executive, founder of RosettaNet and former Chief Executive Officer of ICANN. Through Ethos Capital, he unsuccessfully tried to gain control over the .org internet domain.

#12180

Alvin A. Lee

#37342

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Alvin A. Lee , is a Canadian literary critic and former academic administrator. Career The majority of his academic career—some 39 years—was spent at McMaster University in Hamilton; he served as President and vice-chancellor of that university from 1980 to 1990. He also served as Chairman of the Council of Ontario Universities. The McMaster Museum of Art is housed in a building named in his honour because of his work acquiring extensive and valuable art collections for McMaster University. He received honorary doctorates from Victoria University in the University of Toronto, and from McMast...

#12181

Tim Kindberg

#186755

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Tim Kindberg is a computer scientist, notable for being co-author of one of the standard distributed computer systems textbooks, Distributed Systems . Kindberg has been cited over 10,000 times. Selected research Kindberg, Tim, and John Barton. "A web-based nomadic computing system." Computer Networks 35.4 : 443–456.Kindberg, Tim, et al. "People, places, things: Web presence for the real world." Mobile Networks and Applications 7.5 : 365–376.Kindberg, Tim, and Armando Fox. "System software for ubiquitous computing." IEEE pervasive computing 1.1 : 70–81.Kindberg, Tim, et al. "The ubiquitous cam...

#12182

Sven Pagel

#177601

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Sven Pagel is a German professor of business informatics and media management. His research focuses on digital moving image communication in Internet media, UX and user research, and digital transformation. Since 2013 Pagel has been teaching at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz.

#12183

Derek Bradley

#186768

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Baghir A. Suleimanov

#169433

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Baghir A. Suleimanov — Petroleum Scientist, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Early life and career Suleimanov was born in Baku on June 22, 1959. He graduated from the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University. He received his PhD in 1987, his DSc in 1997, and his professorship in 2011. In 2014, he was chosen corresponding member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences on the specialization of "Development of oil and gas fields," and in 2019, he was elected foreign member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

#12185

Adelina Broadbridge

#186514

Overall Influence

Adelina Broadbridge is an academic specialising in research on charity retailing, retailing, and gender in management. She led the Stirling Management School in winning the Athena SWAN award. She is Senior Lecturer at Stirling Management School, University of Stirling, UK. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Gender in Management journal.

#12186

Malcolm Diamond

#37736

Overall Influence

1924 - 1997 (73 years)

Malcolm Luria Diamond was William H. Danforth Professor of Religion, Emeritus, at Princeton University. Career Diamond was born November 6, 1924, in New York City. During World War II, Diamond served in the U.S. Navy and was deployed to the South Pacific. He received a bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering from Yale University in 1945 and a Ph.D. in philosophy and religion from Columbia University in 1956. He also studied at the Yale Divinity School in 1946-47 and at Trinity College, Cambridge, during 1947-48. He later earned an Ed.S. in family therapy from Seton Hall University in 1...

#12187

DeWitt Godfrey

#112525

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

DeWitt Godfrey is an American sculptor, best known for his large abstract constructions of banded steel installed in public sites. Godfrey was born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan; he earned a B.A. in art from Yale University in 1982 and an M.F.A. in sculpture from the Edinburgh College of Art as a Fulbright Scholar in 1996. Godfrey is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Henry Luce Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Japan Foundation, among others. From 2008 to 2016 he served on the bo...

#12188

Eiman Kanjo

#177827

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Eiman Kanjo is a British computer scientist and engineer. She is professor of pervasive sensing at Nottingham Trent University. Her research considers the development of wireless sensing technologies. She was named as one of the Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering in 2022. She joins Imperial College London as Provost's Visiting Professor, October 2023.

#12189

Peter S. Pezzati

Peter S. Pezzati

#95407

Overall Influence

1902 - 1993 (91 years)

Peter Pezzati was an American portrait artist who was located in the Boston area. His art was rooted in the Renaissance tradition. His artwork included landscapes, pen and ink drawings, watercolors, pastel and oil portraits.

#12190

Travis Dixon

#137731

Overall Influence

Travis Lemar Dixon is an American media studies scholar and Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is known for researching racial and religious stereotyping in television news in the United States, as well as audiences' reception of rap music.

#12191

Andrea Büttner

#79223

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Andrea Büttner is a German artist. She works in a variety of media including woodcuts, reverse glass paintings, sculpture, video, and performance. She creates connections between art history and social or ethical issues, with a particular interest in notions of poverty, shame, vulnerability and dignity, and the belief systems that underpin them.

#12192

Paul Eggert

#148681

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

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Mohammed Berrada

#186858

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Atsushi Kawakami

#186861

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Claudina Rodrigues-Pousada

#183534

Overall Influence

1941 - 2021 (80 years)

Claudina Rodrigues-Pousada was a Portuguese researcher in biochemistry. She was a research student at the Gulbenkian Institute of Science until 1973 and at the Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology , Paris from 1973 to 1979 and Paris Diderot University. In 1979 she completed her PhD studies and in 1976 was employed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation as an adjoint researcher at the Gulbenkian Institute of Science; in 1984 she was a senior researcher until 31 December 1999. In 2000 she moved to the Institute of Technology Chemical Biology as an invited full professor, where she launched the Genomics and Stress laboratory.

#12196

James R. Barker

#112563

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

James R. Barker is the Herbert S. Lamb Chair in Business Education at the Rowe School of Business, within the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His research focuses on how internal behaviour affects an organization’s ability to improve and sustain safety, and safety-related knowledge; manage change; and innovate. Barker writes for Management Communication Quarterly, where he was editor-in-chief from 2006–12. His recognition includes the 2010 Fredric M. Jablin Award for outstanding contributions to organizational communication; a 2014 Canadian Journal of Ad...

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Robert McGrath

#79928

Overall Influence

Robert "Bob" T. McGrath is the director of RASEI, a joint institute of NREL and CU-Boulder. He was a senior vice president responsible for research partnership development in the office of the Executive Vice President for Research. He is also a former director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute, the applied research arm of Georgia Tech, a position he held from 2011 to 2014. Prior to his appointment as GTRI director, McGrath was involved with the Battelle Memorial Institute; his past experience also includes research leadership positions at the National Renewable Energy Lab, Ohio State Univ...

#12198

Dieter Gutknecht

#125280

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Dieter Gutknecht is a German musicologist and former University music director. Life Gutknecht first began his music studies with a focus on performance practice early music, violin and conducting at the State Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. Meanwhile he studied musicology, Germanistik and philosophy in Cologne and Vienna. He passed his state examination in 1968 and his doctorate in 1971. His research topic was Investigations on the melodic theory of the Huguenot Psalter, using the computer. In 1992 Gutknecht habilitated with studies on the history of early music performance practice .

#12199

James M. Anderson

James M. Anderson

#45427

Overall Influence

James M. Anderson is an American Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology and is a Chief of Section of Digestive Diseases at the Yale School of Medicine. Anderson is also a director of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives at the National Institutes of Health.

#12200

Wendy Saltzman

#186903

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