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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#12251

John Crowley

#79085

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

John Crowley is an Irish film and theatre director. He is best known for the films Brooklyn and his debut feature, Intermission , for which he won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Director. He is a brother of the designer Bob Crowley.

#12252

Claudia Rosiny

#96949

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Claudia Rosiny is a German-Swiss academic in Dance and Media studies, a festival director and cultural manager. She became internationally known as an expert on video dance. Having served as a co-director of the Berne Dance Days for many years, she is in charge of the Performing Arts at the Federal Office of Culture Berne and teaches at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

#12253

Richard Bell

#93301

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Richard Bell is an Aboriginal Australian artist and political activist. He is one of the founders of proppaNOW, a Brisbane-based Aboriginal art collective. Early life Born in 1953 in Charleville, Queensland, Bell is a Kamilaroi man.

#12254

Luigi Di Lella

#104939

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Luigi Di Lella is an Italian experimental particle physicist. He has been a staff member at CERN for over 40 years, and has played an important role in major experiments at CERN such as CAST and UA2. From 1986 to 1990 he acted as spokesperson for the UA2 Collaboration, which, together with the UA1 Collaboration, discovered the W and Z bosons in 1983.

#12255

Emma Byrne

#98447

Overall Influence

Emma Byrne is a contemporary British writer and scientist, working in the fields of swearing, artificial intelligence and robotics. Career Scientist Byrne completed her PhD in Expectation Violation Analysis at the University College London, UCL, Department of Computer Science in 2005. Her work showed how it is possible to automatically identify and rank unexpected, and therefore interesting, news from the large volumes of news are available around the clock and around the world.

#12256

David Callahan

#187201

Overall Influence

#12257

Timothy Miller

#15358

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Timothy A. Miller is a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas at Lawrence. He has been involved in the Communal Studies Association and Utopian Studies Society , and is past president of the International Communal Studies Association . He has a particular interest in intentional communities and new religious movements. His son is Aber Miller, noted 'sweetheart jazz man' of Humboldt County.

#12258

Mary Beth Edelson

#14591

Overall Influence

1933 - 2021 (88 years)

Mary Beth Edelson was an American artist and pioneer of the feminist art movement, deemed one of the notable "first-generation feminist artists". Edelson was a printmaker, book artist, collage artist, painter, photographer, performance artist, and author. Her works have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

#12259

David Bowes

#102699

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

David Dirrane Bowes is an American painter, based in Turin, Italy. He was first recognized for his paintings during the early 1980s in New York's East Village. Biography Born in 1957 to Katherine "Kae" and John S. Bowes. He is a brother of science fiction writer Richard Bowes. Bowes attended Rhode Island School of Design in the mid 1970s and has taught painting classes at his alma mater.

#12260

Adrienne Lavine

#185723

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Adrienne S. Lavine is an American mechanical engineer specializing in heat transfer, thermal energy, and energy storage, and known as a coauthor of several widely used textbooks on heat transfer. She is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, director of the UCLA Modeling of Complex Thermal Systems Laboratory, and a former associate vice provost at UCLA.

#12261

Robin Smith

#65839

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Robin Smith is a British artist best known for his long association with 2000AD, including work on Judge Dredd and the Bad City Blue mini-series. For a period, he also served as 2000 AD's art editor.

#12262

Shirley Thomas

#43985

Overall Influence

1920 - 2005 (85 years)

Shirley Thomas , also known as Shirley Thomas Perkins, was a radio/television actress/writer/producer, author, and professor in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. In 2010, The Aerospace Historical Society established the Shirley Thomas Academic Scholarship. It is "presented annually at the International von Kármán Wings Award banquet to a student in aerospace engineering or a related science that shows promise for continued future contributions to the field."

#12263

David Mann

#60541

Overall Influence

1940 - 2004 (64 years)

David Mann was a California graphic artist whose paintings celebrated culture, and choppers. Called "the biker world's artist-in-residence," his images are ubiquitous in biker clubhouses and garages, on motorcycle gas tanks, tattoos, and on T-shirts and other memorabilia associated with biker culture. Choppers have been built based on the bikes first imagined in a David Mann painting.

#12264

David J. Burke

#133258

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

David J. Burke is an American executive producer, screenwriter and film and television director. Burke has produced Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, seaQuest DSV, TriBeCa, and other shows. Filmography

#12265

Gloria L. Main

#174763

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Gloria Lund Main is an American economic historian who is a professor emeritus of history at University of Colorado Boulder. She authored two books about the Thirteen Colonies. Life Gloria Jean Lund was born to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lund of Mount Hermon, California. She graduated from Analy High School. Lund completed her bachelor's degree at San Jose State College . She was an economics graduate student at University of California, Berkeley where she was the only female graduate student. In 1956, Lund paused her studies to marry her former undergraduate professor, Jackson Turner Main, a grandson of historian Frederick Jackson Turner.

#12266

Ellen E. Strong

Ellen E. Strong

#167626

Overall Influence

Ellen E. Strong is a research zoologist, curator of Mollusca, and the chair of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. She studies the diversity and the evolutionary relationships of freshwater and marine snails. Many of these snails have been affected by humans and she is part of conservation efforts by informing best how to help these species.

#12267

Izabela Naydenova

#184526

Overall Influence

Izabela Naydenova is a Bulgarian researcher in holography, holographic materials and nanostructures, and holographic sensors. She is a professor at Technological University Dublin, where she is head of discipline for physics and clinical measurement science in the School of Physics, Clinical and Optometric Sciences, and scientific director of the Centre for Industrial and Engineering Optics.

#12268

Darrick Carter

#185002

Overall Influence

Darrick Carter is an American biochemist/biophysicist, inventor, and entrepreneur. He is known for developing various therapeutics and vaccines, such as saRNA COVID-19 vaccine, influenza vaccine, and tuberculosis vaccine. Currently, he is the CEO of Compliment Corporation, and PAI Life Sciences Incorporated, as well as Founder of HDT Bio Corporation. He also holds two affiliate Professorships at the University of Washington in the Schools of Medicine and in Global Health.

#12269

Melissa Chase

#129112

Overall Influence

Melissa Erin Chase is an American cryptographer known for her research on attribute-based encryption, digital credentials, and information privacy. She works at Microsoft Research. Education Chase graduated in 2003 from Harvey Mudd College, with a senior thesis in mathematics about the shortest path problem, advised by Ran Libeskind-Hadas. She earned a Ph.D. from Brown University with Anna Lysyanskaya as her doctoral advisor.

#12270

Jaime Hernandez

Jaime Hernandez

#79427

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Jaime Hernandez is the co-creator of the alternative comic book Love and Rockets with his brothers Gilbert and Mario. Early life Jaime Hernandez grew up in Oxnard, California. He is the youngest of his family, with four older brothers and one sister. His family embraced comics: their mother read them frequently and old issues were kept in large quantities in the house, to be read and re-read by all over the years. "We grew up with comics," Hernandez said. "I wanted to draw comics my whole life."

#12271

Niko Qafzezi

#42653

Overall Influence

1914 - 1998 (84 years)

Niko Qafzezi was an agronomist and pedagogue from Albania. Early life Dr. Niko Qafzezi was born in Korca on 26 October 1914 and died on 30 November 1998 in Tirane. He was the father of Leon Qafzezi and Robert Qafzezi with Amalia Qafzezi , whom he married in 1952 in Tirane.

#12272

Dipankar Borah

#182851

Overall Influence

1994 - Present (32 years)

Dipankar Borah is an Indian field botanist from Assam. Personal life Dipankar Borah is a botanist of the region and belongs from Monabarie TE, one of the largest tea plantations in the country located in the Biswanath District of Assam. Son of Moheswar Borah and Bijanti Borah . He did his BSc from Biswanath College in 2015, his MSc in 2017 and PhD in 2022 from Rajiv Gandhi University. He conducted majority of his plant explorations in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya states of Northeast India. Since 2020, he has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Goalpara College...

#12273

Lawrence Edward Davis

#187325

Overall Influence

Dr. Larry E. Davis is the Dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh and the Director and founder of the University of Pittsburgh’s Center on Race and Social Problems which conducts applied social science research on race, ethnicity, and color. He’s earned research funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health, and the National Institute of Mental Health to aid his work on interracial group dynamics, the impact of race, gender, and class on interpersonal interactions, African American family formation, and academic achievement of youth. A...

#12274

Joseba Agirreazkuenaga

Joseba Agirreazkuenaga

#173548

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Joseba Agirreazkuenaga is a researcher and historian. He is specialist in the history of the Basque Country particularly: the crisis of the Ancien Régime; the fueros, self-governance, the economic concert between Spain and the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country and its fiscal system, and the social movements both in Bilbao and in the Basque Country as a whole.

#12275

Laura Boykin

#101420

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Laura Boykin is an American computational biologist who uses supercomputing and genomics to help farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has studied the evolution of the agricultural pest whitefly and identified genetic differences between various species. She works with African scientists to develop computing and genomics skills across the continent, and is a Senior TED fellow.

#12276

Mrinal Thakur

#38317

Overall Influence

Mrinal Thakur is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Auburn University in Alabama, USA. He holds a series of patents on electrically conductive polymers. Thakur claims that the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry to Alan J. Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa was awarded for a scientific result he disproved in 1988: that only conjugated polymers could conduct electricity.

#12277

Bin Xie

#97545

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Bin Xie is a Chinese-born artist living in Sydney, Australia. She was a finalist in the 2006 Archibald Prize. Early life Xie graduated from Chongqing University in 1982 with a bachelor of science degree, and earned a master of science from the same university in 1988. She remained at Chongqing University as a mathematics instructor until 1990, when she moved to Australia. She began painting seriously around 2002, and studied fine arts at the Meadowbank campus of the Northern Sydney Institute of TAFE, from which she received a diploma in 2003. She went on to the Sydney College of the Arts , gr...

#12278

Elliott Linwood

#92287

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Elliott Linwood is an American conceptual artist known for his large-scale photo grids and cross-referencing sculptural installations. He is based in San Diego, California. Early life, career and education Linwood was born July 14, 1956, in Lowell and attended Billerica Memorial High School in Massachusetts before moving to New York City when he was nineteen. He came out as a gay man just before the AIDS epidemic struck. Testing positive for the HIV virus in the early 1980s led him to a life of activism around this condition. Linwood worked in the field of electronic publishing most of his life.

#12279

Srabanti Chowdhury

Srabanti Chowdhury

#187389

Overall Influence

Srabanti Chowdhury is an Indian American Electrical Engineer who is an associate professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. She is a senior fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy. At Stanford she works on ultra-wide and wide-bandgap semiconductors and device engineering for energy-efficient electronic devices. She serves as Director for Science Collaborations at the United States Department of Energy Energy Frontier Research Center ULTRA.

#12280

Izabela Maria Furtado Kestler

#106427

Overall Influence

1959 - 2009 (50 years)

Izabela Maria Furtado Kestler was a Brazilian professor of German studies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Patrik von zur Mühlen described her as the foremost specialist on German language writers and editors exiled in Brazil during the Nazi-era. From 1998, she was editor-in-chief of forum deutsch, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Germânicos, a publication of the Association of Professors of German of Rio de Janeiro.

#12281

J. J. M. Roberts

#95646

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Jimmy Jack McBee Roberts , known as J. J. M. Roberts, is William Henry Green Professor of Old Testament Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. A member of the Churches of Christ, Roberts attended Abilene Christian University before pursuing doctoral work at Harvard University.

#12282

Syd Carpenter

#148825

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Syd Carpenter is an African American artist and a retired professor of studio art, known for her ceramic and sculpture work, which explores African-American farming and gardening. She has received multiple fellowships, including a Pew Fellowship and an NEA Fellowship, and her work is currently in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art's collection.

#12283

Wang Dongming

#181926

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Wang Dongming is Research Director at the French National Center for Scientific Research . He was awarded Wen-tsün Wu Chair Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2001, Changjiang Scholar of the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2005, and Bagui Scholar of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China in 2014. He was elected Member of the Academia Europaea in 2017.

#12284

Pancho Guedes

#11562

Overall Influence

1925 - 2015 (90 years)

Amâncio d'Alpoim Miranda "Pancho" Guedes was a Portuguese architect, sculptor and painter an educator. He is described as one of the earliest post-modernist architects in Africa and an archetype Eclectic Modernist.

#12285

Susan Henrichs

#38604

Overall Influence

Susan Henrichs became provost of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in July 2007, after serving as dean of the Graduate School and vice provost of UAF from 2003 to 2007. Career Henrichs was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. She earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry and chemical oceanography from the University of Washington in 1975, and a Ph.D. in chemical oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution joint program in 1980. From 1981 to 1982 she worked as a postdoctoral research chemist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She joine...

#12286

Idelle Weber

#79660

Overall Influence

1932 - 2020 (88 years)

Idelle Lois Weber was an American artist most closely aligned with the Pop art and Photorealist movements. Early life Weber was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 12, 1932 as Tessie Pasternack. Adopted as an infant by Julius Earl and Minnie Feinberg, she lived in Wilmette, Illinois until the age of eight, with a businessman father and a mother devoted to her cultural development. Early childhood gifts of a Brownie camera and a large magnifying glass were meaningful. She was curious and creative as a child. Her mother took her on weekly visits to the Art Institute of Chicago, her favorite works in the collection being those by Rembrandt, Edward Hopper, and the Thorne miniature rooms.

#12287

Vasa Mihich

#58295

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Vasa Velizar Mihich , known as Vasa, is an American artist based in Los Angeles, California and is a prominent figure in the Color Field movement. Born in Yugoslavia, Vasa has lived in Los Angeles since his arrival in the United States in 1960. He is an academically trained painter and was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Design and Media Arts. He taught theories of color to understand interdependence and interaction of color and form, color and quantity, color and placement, and after-image.

#12288

Tuomas Sandholm

#187448

Overall Influence

#12289

Thoroddur Bjarnason

#95148

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Thoroddur Bjarnason is an Icelandic sociologist and professor at the University of Akureyri. He is most well known for his international comparative survey research on adolescents and their living and custody arrangements, alcohol consumption and substance abuse.

#12290

Sama Alshaibi

#77031

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Sama Raena Alshaibi also known as Sama Alshaibi is a conceptual artist , who deals with spaces of conflict as her primary subject. War, exile, power and the quest for survival are themes seen in her works. She often uses her own body in her artwork as a representation of the country or an issue she is dealing with.

#12291

Diana al-Hadid

#99970

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Diana al-Hadid is a Syrian-born American contemporary artist who creates sculptures, installations, and drawings using various media. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Early life and education Al-Hadid was born in Aleppo, Syria. When she was five, her family immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, but she grew up mostly in North Canton, Ohio. She grew up in an Islamic household. Al-Hadid decided at the age of 11 that she wanted to be an artist. She was inspired by family vacations to the middle east, visiting the Jeita Grotto in Lebanon and experiencing Islamic architecture.

#12292

Kenneth L Jones

#187496

Overall Influence

#12293

Alison Sinclair

#93527

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Alison Jane Sinclair is professor of molecular virology at the University of Sussex where she runs the Sinclair Lab. Her research interests include the Epstein Barr virus. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

#12294

Marco Maria Gazzano

#131951

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Marco Maria Gazzano was an Italian film and media art theoretician and an exhibition curator. Early life Gazzano graduated in Contemporary History at University of Turin with a thesis under the supervision of Nicola Tranfaglia and Guido Aristarco. In 1986 he received a Ph.D. in Performing and Electronic Arts at Sapienza University of Rome.

#12295

Chaim Gross

#44707

Overall Influence

1904 - 1991 (87 years)

Chaim Gross was an American sculptor and educator of Ukrainian Jewish origin. Gross studied and taught at the Educational Alliance Art School in New York City’s Lower Manhattan. He summered for many years in Provincetown.

#12296

Vitalik Buterin

#187507

Overall Influence

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Surendra Sheodas Barlingay

#75389

Overall Influence

1919 - 1997 (78 years)

Surendra Shivdas Barlingay Nagpur, India Education S.S.Barlingay was a fellow at the Indian Institute of Philosophy, Amalner . He did his post-doctoral research at Oxford University . Career Barlingay was a scholar and teacher of philosophy.

#12298

Yacouba Konaté

#56245

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Yacouba Konaté is a curator, writer, art critic and professor of philosophy at the Université de Cocody in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. He is a member of l'Académie des Arts, des Sciences et des Cultures d'Afrique et des Diasporas in Abidjan and he leads the Africa Office of the Jean Paul Blachère's Foundation.

#12299

Masar Caka

#63430

Overall Influence

1946 - 2000 (54 years)

Masar Caka was an Albanian painter. He was a professor at the University of Pristina and the Academy of Figurative Arts of Kosovo, located in Pristina. Masar Caka was born on 13 April 1946 in Gjakova, Yugoslavia. He graduated from the Academy of Figurative Arts of Belgrade in 1972. In 1982 he received a master's degree from the same institution. Since 1976 he was a member of the Academy of Figurative Arts of Kosovo.

#12300

Alexander Gottschalk

#90604

Overall Influence

1932 - 2010 (78 years)

Alexander Gottschalk is Professor of Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Scientific career Alexander Gottschalk studied chemistry, biochemistry and immunology at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Philipps University in Marburg and University of Edinburgh, UK. His PhD thesis was conducted in the laboratory of Reinhard Lührmann at the University of Marburg. As a postdoctoral fellow, he worked with William R. Schafer at UC San Diego to study the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans. In 2004, he became an independent research group leader in Frankfurt.

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