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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#12401

Leland D. Patouillet

#115146

Overall Influence

Leland D. Patouillet is the former Director of the University of Florida Alumni Association. Prior to his position at the University of Florida, he served as the associate vice chancellor for alumni relations and executive director of the University of Pittsburgh Alumni Association. Before that position he was the Director of Alumni Relations for the University of South Florida for six years.

#12402

Alan Dale George

#115147

Overall Influence

Alan Dale George from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for contributions to reconfigurable and high-performance computing.

#12403

Eva-Maria Voigt

#92969

Overall Influence

1921 - 2013 (92 years)

Eva-Maria Voigt was a German classical philologist, known for her work on the archaic Greek poets Sappho and Alcaeus. Life She studied Classical Philology at the University of Hamburg, and received her doctorate in 1945 with a dissertation "Zur Nominal- und Verbalflexion bei Sappho und Alkaios". From 1955 to 1984, she worked as editor of the Lexicon of the Early Greek Epic, completed in 2010. In 1971, Voigt published Sappho et Alcaeus: Fragmenta. She was a professor of classical philology at the University of Hamburg. She retired in April 1983, to Waldkirch.

#12404

Rafail Krichevskii

#174095

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Rafail Evseevich Krichevskii is a Russian mathematician and information theorist, now living in the United States. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1958. He received his PhD degree in Theoretical Cybernetics in 1963. His PhD advisor was S.V.Yablonsky. Further, Krichevskii became a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences and professor , specializing in the field of mathematical cybernetics and information theory. From 1962 to 1996 he worked at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics. In the late 90s he worked in University of California, Riverside, US.

#12405

Yanda Li

#188182

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Yanda Li from the Tsinghua University, Beijing, China was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for contributions to research and education in signal processing and bioinformatics.

#12406

Renée Green

#100289

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Renée Green is an American artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her pluralistic practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, architecture, photography, prints, video, film, websites, and sound, which normally converge in highly layered and complex installations. She works to draw on cultural anthropology as well as social history, making her works well-researched and many times involving collaborators. Some of the topics she has covered include Sarah Baartman, the African slave trade, and hip hop in Germany.

#12407

Allen Dyer

#160381

Overall Influence

Allen R. Dyer is professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences with the George Washington University. He is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. As of January 2017 he is the sole surviving member of the committee that formulated the Goldwater rule of the American Psychiatric Association.

#12408

William K. Hayes

#188202

Overall Influence

#12409

Aura Timen

#122621

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Aura Timen is a Romanian medical doctor based in the Netherlands. She is head of the department of primary care and professor of primary and community care at Radboud University Nijmegen. Early years and education Timen has a degree in medicine from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania , but moved to the Netherlands in 1992 and had to requalify so also has a medical degree from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam . She has a PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands , where her thesis was on "Outbreak management: towards a model for the next crisis".

#12410

Gaston R. Gutierrez

#184930

Overall Influence

Gaston R. Gutierrez currently works at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory where he holds a Scientist II position. He completed his undergraduate education in the National University of La Plata, Argentina in 1977. In 1982 he received his PhD from the same institution. He was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Particles and Fields in 2009, for leading the introduction of ""matrix-element"" techniques for extracting precise measurements of standard-model parameters at hadron colliders and for seminal and vital contrib...

#12411

Ernest Pintoff

#128770

Overall Influence

1931 - 2002 (71 years)

Ernest Pintoff was an American film and television director, screenwriter and film producer. He won the Oscar for Best Animated Short for The Critic , a satire on modern art written and narrated by Mel Brooks.

#12412

Jack Penn

#25829

Overall Influence

1909 - 1996 (87 years)

Jack Penn , M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.S., Mil. Dec. M.B.E., S.M., was a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, sculptor and author, who was also for a time a member of the President's Council in South Africa. Early years Penn was born in Cape Town in 1909, the youngest of 7 children. After World War I, the family moved to Johannesburg, where he was educated at Parktown Boys' High School and the University of the Witwatersrand.

#12413

P. Pardha Saradhi

#185011

Overall Influence

P. Pardha Saradhi is an Indian plant biologist and a professor at the Department of Environmental Studies of the University of Delhi. The team led by him is reported to have developed a transgenic mustard for the first time in India. He was also in the news for filing a case of plagiarism against KVSK Prasad, his one-time student and Deepak Pental, a former vice-chancellor of Delhi University.

#12414

Scott Wilson

#78078

Overall Influence

1942 - 2018 (76 years)

Scott Wilson was an American actor. He had more than 50 film credits, including In the Heat of the Night, In Cold Blood, The Great Gatsby, Dead Man Walking, Pearl Harbor, and Junebug. In 1980, Wilson received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his role in William Peter Blatty's The Ninth Configuration. He played veterinarian Hershel Greene on the AMC television series The Walking Dead . He also had a recurring role on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as casino mogul Sam Braun, as well as a lead role on the Netflix series The OA as Abel Johnson.

#12415

Gheorghe Maria

#185938

Overall Influence

Gheorghe Maria is a Romanian chemical engineer, member of Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Politehnica University of Bucharest and corresponding member of the Romanian Academy. Biography Gheorghe Maria's research interests include a wide range of classic but also modern border fields, namely chemical reactors , modelling chemical kinetics, but also dynamics of cell metabolic processes, of gene regulatory circuits, and of controlled drug release. Following the international cooperations, its scientific productivity includes over 230 papers in ISI journals and international ...

#12416

Ruth Massey

#186212

Overall Influence

Ruth Catherine Massey is a British molecular biologist who is a professor at University College Cork. Her research considers pathogens. She was elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2023.

#12417

Lois Weaver

#54737

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Lois Weaver is a Guggenheim-winning artist, activist, writer, director, and Professor of Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary University of London. She is currently a Wellcome Trust Fellow in Engaging Science. Her work centers on feminism, human rights and possibilities for public participation. Active for over four decades she is the founding member of significant New York theatre companies Spiderwoman Theater , Split Britches and WOW . Weaver came to London to take on the role of artistic director for Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company in 1992. She lives in New York and London.

#12418

Borislav Stojkov

Borislav Stojkov

#114789

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Borislav Stojkov is an engineer of architecture and professor at University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography. He is a full member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia. Biography and career After graduating architecture at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture he completed his master studies at the same faculty and achieved his doctoral degree at the University of Sarajevo . Later he specialized regional planning at MIT-SPURS , London and Gothenburg . In his professional career he was mostly engaged in town planning from 1966 to 1990, and spatial planning from 1991 to 2015.

#12419

Michael Barnett

#188277

Overall Influence

#12420

Richard Johnson

#33268

Overall Influence

Richard Johnson is an American gossip columnist with the New York Posts Page Six column, which he edited for 25 years. Described by the New York Times as "a journalistic descendant of Walter Winchell", in 1994 he was ranked the No. 1 New York City gossip columnist by New York magazine in a list that also included Liz Smith, Michael Musto, and Cindy Adams.

#12421

Nick Sousanis

#104211

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Walter Nickell "Nick" Sousanis is an American scholar, art critic, and cartoonist; a co-founder of the TheDetroiter.com, he is also the first person at Columbia University to write a dissertation entirely in a comic book format.

#12422

Barbara Falkenbach Ryan

#179149

Overall Influence

Barbara Falkenbach Ryan is an American mathematician, computer scientist, statistician and business executive. She is known for developing the Minitab statistical software package, and for being president and CEO of Minitab, Inc.

#12423

Liliana Porter

#45597

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Liliana Porter is an Argentine contemporary artist working in a wide variety of media, including photography, printmaking, painting, drawing, installation, video, theater, and public art. Education and teaching experience Porter was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1941, lives and works in New York. As a teenager, she attended the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico, where she studied under Guillermo Silva Santamaria and Mathias Goeritz. She returned to Argentina and completed her training at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. In 1964, she moved to New Yor...

#12424

Paige Fischer

#172656

Overall Influence

Paige Fischer is an environmental scientist from the Pacific Northwest whose research focuses mainly on the human dimensions of environmental changes. She is especially interested in forest ecology and conservation. She is currently an assistant professor at the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability, teaching upper level classes about analysis methods and social vulnerability to climate change.

#12425

Clarence H. Miller

Clarence H. Miller

#76494

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Clarence H. Miller born in Kansas City, Missouri was an American professor emeritus of English at Saint Louis University. He is best known for major contributions to the study of Renaissance literature, and creating the classic translations from Latin of Saint Thomas More's 1516 book Utopia, and Erasmus's 1509 The Praise of Folly. Utopia is considered one of the most important works of European humanism. Miller was also Executive Editor of the Yale University Thomas More variorum project, which produced, over a period of decades, the 15-volume Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thom...

#12426

David S. Yost

#123233

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

David S. Yost is a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, in the Department of National Security Affairs, as well as a published author on international security, missile defense and nuclear deterrence. Dr. Yost has been a consultant to various organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the Hudson Institute, the Ford Foundation, the National Institute for Public Policy , Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is a member of the editorial board of Comparative Strategy sponsored by NIPP and serv...

#12427

Mark Turner

#188307

Overall Influence

#12428

Jun Shimizu

#188309

Overall Influence

#12429

Muneeb Ali

#188322

Overall Influence

Muneeb Ali is a Pakistani-American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Stacks, an open-source smart contract platform for Bitcoin. He is known for the regulatory framework that resulted in the first SEC-qualified offering for a crypto asset and for his doctoral dissertation which formed the basis of the Stacks network. He is a co-author of Protothread and Proof-of-Transfer consensus.

#12430

Andrzej Zieliński

#164147

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Andrzej Zieliński is an American painter. Education Zieliński received his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002. In 2004 he earned his MFA from Yale University in New Haven, CT.

#12431

Lowry Burgess

#101440

Overall Influence

1940 - 2020 (80 years)

Lowry Burgess was a conceptual and environmental artist and educator and was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a Distinguished Fellow in the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. He also served on the Advisory Council of METI .

#12432

Hrvoje Brkić

#180548

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Hrvoje Brkić , Croatian biophysicist. He was born in Vinkovci, where he attended elementary school and Gymnasium Matija Antun Reljković. In 2007. he finished Physics department of J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, and approached to the PhD in Faculty of natural sciences in Zagreb. PhD thesis named Computational studies of Iron dependent dioxygenases, under mentor prof. Sanja Tomić, was defended in 2014th. Till now has co-authored approximately 30 internationally reviewed scientific papers.

#12433

Robert Russin

#45987

Overall Influence

1914 - 2007 (93 years)

Robert Isaiah Russin was an American sculptor, artist and University of Wyoming professor. He was best known for a number of public sculptures throughout the United States, including the "Spirit of Life" fountain sculpture located at the City of Hope National Medical Center in California and a giant bust of Abraham Lincoln, the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Monument, located on I-80 in Wyoming.

#12434

Mohan Joshi

#100688

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Mohan Joshi is an Indian film, television and theater actor. He has worked in Hindi, Marathi and Bhojpuri films. Career Joshi started his career as a theatre artist in Pune. He was noticed in the play Kuryat Sada Tingalam. Along with Anand Abhyankar and Suhasini Deshpande, the show was performed more than 1000 times.

#12435

Daniel P. Franklin

#87689

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Daniel Paul Franklin is an American political scientist and Associate Professor of political science at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Franklin was born in Mt. Vernon, New York and grew up in Austin, Texas. He received a BA in political science in 1976 from the University of California, Los Angeles. He obtained an MA and a PhD from the University of Texas, Austin in the years 1981 and 1984, respectively. He taught at Colgate University from 1985 to 1990, and was an APSA Congressional Fellow from 1990 to 1991. He then obtained his present position at Georgia State.

#12436

Daniel B. Seaton

#185585

Overall Influence

Daniel B. Seaton is an American solar physicist based at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. He is particularly known for his work on producing and interpreting images of the solar corona, using both visible light and extreme ultraviolet.

#12437

Dănuț Marcu

#100913

Overall Influence

1952 - 2017 (65 years)

Dănuţ Marcu is a Romanian mathematician and computer scientist, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Bucharest in 1981. He claimed to have authored more than 400 scientific papers. Marcu was frequently accused of plagiarism. The editors of Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Informatica decided to ban Marcu from their journal for this reason, as did the editors of 4OR and the editors of Geombinatorics. The editors of Geometriae Dedicata state that they suspect Marcu of plagiarism, as he submitted a manuscript which is "more-or-less word for word the same" as a paper by Bernt Lindström.

#12438

Gilberto Aceves Navarro

Gilberto Aceves Navarro

#67475

Overall Influence

1931 - 2019 (88 years)

Gilberto Aceves Navarro was a Mexican painter and sculptor and a professor at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas and Academy of San Carlos. There have been more than two hundred individual exhibits of his work, with his murals found in Mexico, Japan and the United States. He received numerous awards for his work including grants as a Creador Artístico of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes and Bellas Artes Medal from the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes.

#12439

Ashok K Singh

#184897

Overall Influence

Dr Ashok Kumar Singh is an Indian scientist specializing in the field of Plant Genetics and Breeding. He is well known for his contribution to Basmati rice breeding. He is currently the director and vice-chancellor of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, a deemed to be university. Dr Singh is an alumnus of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi where he did his bachelor's degree and Masters Program in agriculture with specialisation in plant genetics and breeding. He received doctorate degree from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi for his research on rice breedin...

#12440

Debbie Lindell

#187860

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Debbie Lindell is the Dresner Chair in life sciences and medicine at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. She is known for her work on the interactions between viruses and their hosts in marine environments.

#12441

Leonid Lazebnik

Leonid Lazebnik

#70937

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Leonid Borisovich Lazebnik is a Russian physician, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor at the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, President of the Gastroenterology Scientific Society of Russia. Laureate of the 1999 Moscow Government Prize and 2000 Myasnikov Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Prize.

#12442

Mark Pharis

#49242

Overall Influence

Mark Pharis is an American ceramic artist and professor. He is the Chair of the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota, where he has been a faculty member since 1985. As of 2022, he was named a Fellow of the American Craft Council.

#12443

S. Simon Wong

#101359

Overall Influence

S. Simon Wong is a professor in the Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering. He is affiliated faculty in the Stanford Non-Volatile Memory Technology Research Initiative , System X Alliance, and Bio-X.

#12444

Donn W. Parson

#109203

Overall Influence

Donn W. Parson is a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas and the former Director of Forensics at the University of Kansas from 1964 to 1988, during which period he led KU to three national championships.

#12445

James C. Anthony

#58444

Overall Influence

James C. Anthony has been professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Michigan State University's Medical School since October 2003, with service as department chairman until 2009. From 1972 to 2003, he was on the faculties of the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy and the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health . He continues to serve as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins and is associated with their Department of Mental Health.

#12446

William S. Harris

#77225

Overall Influence

William S. Harris, PhD FAHA FASN is an American professor and researcher focusing on human nutrition. His work has focused on the role of Omega-3 fatty acids as they relate to cardiovascular disease and neuropsychiatric disease.

#12447

Dorothy Dehner

#52620

Overall Influence

1901 - 1994 (93 years)

Dorothy Dehner was an American painter and sculptor. Early life Dorothy Dehner was born on December 23, 1901, in Cleveland, Ohio. Her father was a pharmacist and her mother was a passionate suffragette. When Dehner was ten years old, her father died and her two aunts, Flo and Cora, moved in. Cora aroused Dehner's curiosity about foreign culture with extravagant tales of her travels abroad. Cora's tales would later provide the inspiration for Dehner's solo trip to Europe in 1925.

#12448

Ruth Chambers

#94045

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Ruth Chambers is an installation artist based in Regina, Saskatchewan. She works with a wide range of media, and her art has incorporated everything from unfired clay, ceramics and found objects to the latest in audio-visual media.

#12449

Stephen Rousseas

#159548

Overall Influence

1921 - 2012 (91 years)

Stephen Rousseas was the Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Emeritus Professor of Economics at Vassar College. He has also taught at Cornell University, Columbia University, New York University, the University of Michigan and Yale University.

#12450

Clara Saraceno

#119830

Overall Influence

Clara Jody Saraceno is a laser scientist whose research involves the development of ultrafast lasers, a technology whose applications include ultrafast laser spectroscopy, and imaging biological processes at the molecular scale. Born in Argentina and educated in France and Switzerland, she works in Germany as a professor in the Faculty for Electrical Engineering of Ruhr University Bochum, where she holds the Chair of Photonics and Ultrafast Laser Science.

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