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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#12451

Joel Black

#40411

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Joel Black is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Black has written extensively on subfields of literature and film studies areas such as romanticism, postmodernism, philosophy and history of science, and cultural studies. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture and The Reality Effect: Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative .

#12452

Mary Spencer Nay

#96631

Overall Influence

1913 - 1993 (80 years)

Mary Spencer Nay was an American painter and printmaker. Born in Crestwood, Kentucky, Nay studied at the Art Center Association School in Louisville from 1934 to 1940. She attended the Cincinnati Art Academy in 1942 and earned both her bachelor's and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Louisville, in 1941 and 1960, respectively. She also took lessons at the Art Students League of New York in 1942, and in Provincetown, Massachusetts under Boris Margo from 1950 to 1951. She taught at the University of Louisville for twenty years before retiring as the Marcia S. Hite professor of painting in 1979.

#12453

Juan Mata

#188471

Overall Influence

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Richard C. Johnson

#109388

Overall Influence

1930 - 2010 (80 years)

Richard Clayton Johnson was a researcher at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and the inventor of the Compact Antenna Range. He was also a professor of electrical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology., where he received his PhD in 1961.

#12455

L. Joseph Thomas

#75162

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Louis Joseph Thomas is an American educator and administrator who is the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean Emeritus and professor of operations management of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He served Johnson as its dean for five years, prior to returning to the faculty in 2012.

#12456

Wolfgang Koch

#181183

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Johann Wolfgang Koch is a German physicist and computer scientist. He teaches applied computer science at the University of Bonn, Germany, and is chief scientist of the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics. In 2011, Koch was elected a IEEE Fellow and since 2015, he has been an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer

#12457

David Lund

#171161

Overall Influence

1925 - 2002 (77 years)

David Lund is identified with the abstract expressionist painters of the New York School. His landscape oils done in the 1950s are exemplary of the bold combination of form, color and texture for which this group is celebrated. Lund taught at Cooper Union, Parsons, New York University, Fashion Institute of Technology, the Metropolitan Museum, the 92nd Street Y, the National Academy School of Fine Arts, and Columbia University.

#12458

Kittisak Prokati

#112076

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Kittisak Prokati is a Thai legal scholar. He is assistant professor of comparative law, civil law and philosophy of law at the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University. Education and academic career Kittisak graduated from the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, and received a diploma in comparative law from the University of Strasbourg in France, as well as a master's degree and a research doctorate in law from the University of Bonn, Germany.

#12459

Gisle Hannemyr

#186453

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Gisle Hannemyr is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo. Professional background In 1991, he was co-founder of the first commercial internet service provider in Norway, Oslonett, which later, being acquired by Schibsted, became Schibsted Nett , and Scandinavia Online . He later co-founded other Internet-related businesses.

#12460

Michelle Mason

#117525

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Michelle Mason Bizri is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, where she has taught since 2000. She has published numerous works in normative moral psychology, where her main contributions have been to defend the view that particular person-focused, esteem-based attitudes have a significant role to play in moral evaluation.

#12461

Kenny Williams

#84545

Overall Influence

1927 - 2003 (76 years)

Kenny J. Williams was an African American scholar and author, and an English professor at Duke University. Williams was born in Kentucky, and received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1959. She was from 1977 until her death, a professor in Duke University's Department of English. Her father was Joseph Harrison Jackson, President of the National Baptist Convention from 1941 to 1990.

#12462

Rodney McMillian

#86536

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Rodney McMillian is an artist based in Los Angeles. McMillian is a Professor of Sculpture at the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles. Early life and education McMillian grew up in Columbia, South Carolina. His mother worked for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and his father was a bus driver.

#12463

Martina Callaghan

#116298

Overall Influence

Martina F. Callaghan is an Irish medical physicist who is the Director of the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. Her research considers the development of in-vivo histology using MRI.

#12464

Sanjay Mittal

#188541

Overall Influence

#12465

Asma Ismail

#122210

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Prof. Datuk Dr. Asma binti Ismail is a Malaysian academic and molecular biologist. She is the first female Vice-Chancellor of Universiti Sains Malaysia appointed in 2016. She had previously been the first female VC of Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia , and first female Director General of Higher Education.

#12466

Ransom L. Baldwin

#186039

Overall Influence

1935 - 2007 (72 years)

Ransom Leland Baldwin Jr. was an animal research scientist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences as of 1993. He was born on a dairy farm in Meriden Connecticut. He earned a BS in Animal Industries from the University of Connecticut in 1957. He received an MS in Dairy Nutrition and a PhD in Biochemistry and Nutrition in 1963 from Michigan State University. From 1957 to 1961 he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. In 1968, he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in Natural Sciences. He taught in the Animal Science Department at the University of California at Davis from 1963 until he retired in 2001.

#12467

Perry Fenwick

#95518

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Perry Fenwick is an English actor. He is known for portraying the role of Billy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, a role which he has played since 1998. Career Television Fenwick's first regular television role was in the sitcom Watching. He has also appeared in Inspector Morse, The Brittas Empire, Minder, On the Up, The Thin Blue Line, and Bergerac. In 1995, Fenwick played a role in the Crimewatch File episode "Sorry Sarah".

#12468

Harrison M. Hayford

#110271

Overall Influence

1916 - 2001 (85 years)

Harrison Mosher Hayford was a scholar of American literature, most prominently of Herman Melville, a book-collector, and a textual editor. He taught at Northwestern University from 1942 until his retirement in 1986. He was a leading figure in the post-World War II generation of Melville scholars who mounted the Melville Revival. He was General Editor of the Northwestern-Newberry The Writings of Herman Melville published by Northwestern University Press, which established reliable texts for all of Melville's works by using techniques of textual criticism.

#12469

Petr Sklenička

#56211

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Petr Sklenička is a Czech University Lecturer in Environmental Science. He has been Rector of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague since February 2018. Life and Work On the foundation of the Faculty of Environmental Science in 2007 Sklenička became Dean and remained in this position until 2014. From 2014 until 2018 he was Vice Rector for Science and Research at the CZU. Sklenička held seminars and tutorials on the theme of soil- and landscape protection, in particular land management and landscape ecology. Since 2005 he has at the same time taught at the Czech Technical University in Prague .

#12470

David Grossman

#137962

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

David Grossman is an American film and television director. He is best known for his work on the ABC series Desperate Housewives, where he also served as co-executive producer. Grossman's other television directing credits include Lost, Weird Science, MadTV, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Dead Like Me, Malcolm in the Middle, Ally McBeal, Devious Maids, Revenge, 12 Monkeys, The InBetween, Grand Hotel, Why Women Kill, Tell Me a Story, 9-1-1: Lone Star, 9-1-1, Motherland: Fort Salem and In the Dark among other series.

#12471

John Hunter

#188570

Overall Influence

#12472

Xin Kegui

#151364

Overall Influence

1950 - 2012 (62 years)

Professor Chen Kegui was the head of department of civil engineering at Tsinghua University and deputy dean of School of Civil Engineering at Tsinghua University from 2005 until his death in 2012. Xin was born October 6, 1950, in Sichuan Province, China. He began his college life when he was 23, but he made progress fast. He received his B.Sc. in 1977, M.Sc. in 1983 from Tsinghua University, supervised by professor Yu-qiu Long . He later earned a Ph.D. from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

#12473

H. M. Nayak

#40282

Overall Influence

1931 - 2000 (69 years)

Harogadde Manappa Nayak was an academician, writer and folklorist. Early life and career He was born in the village Harogadde, Shimoga district in Karnataka. He served as a lecturer, and then professor, at the Mysore University, before being appointed the Director of the Kuvempu Institute of Kannada Studies at the university. Appointed the Vice-chancellor of Gulbarga University on 2 November 1984, he served until 15 February 1987, when he resigned citing moral responsibility for examination malpractices.

#12474

Katya Rodríguez-Vázquez

#138461

Overall Influence

Katya Rodríguez-Vázquez is a Mexican computer scientist whose research involves genetic programming and its applications in system identification, the problem of reconstructing models of dynamical systems from measurements of their behavior. She is a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico , in the Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y Sistemas .

#12475

Twila Moon

#115508

Overall Influence

Twila Moon is a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center known for her work on the Greenland ice sheet. Education and career Moon has a B.S. from Stanford University and an M.S. from the University of Washington . She earned her Ph.D. in 2004 from the University of Washington where she worked on ice mass loss from a Greenland glacier. Following her Ph.D. she did postdoctoral work at the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the University of Oregon before joining the National Snow and Ice Data Center as a research scientist in 2017.

#12476

Geoffrey Scammell

#179503

Overall Influence

1925 - 2006 (81 years)

Geoffrey Vaughan Scammell was a British historian and fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who was an authority on Tudor and Stuart maritime history. Early life Geoffrey Scammell was born on 11 July 1925 in Wallasey, Merseyside, England. Attended Wallasey Grammar School. He graduated from Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, BA in 1948 . After service at sea and a position at Durham, he became a Fellow of Pembroke College 12 years later, where he remained as a lecturer and scholar until his retirement in 1992.

#12477

Donna Wolk

#164691

Overall Influence

Donna M. Wolk is an American microbiologist who is Director of Clinical Microbiology at the Geisinger Health System. In 2017, she was honored by the American Society for Microbiology for her efforts to improve patient care using microbiology.

#12478

Francis Joseph Mullin

Francis Joseph Mullin

#82798

Overall Influence

1906 - 1997 (91 years)

Francis Joseph Mullin , also often known as F.J. Mullin or Joe Mullin, was an American academic and the seventh president of Shimer College. He was raised Catholic, but became an Episcopalian as a teenager. He was key in engineering Shimer's brief period as an Episcopal-affiliated college; the school had previously had a Baptist affiliation.

#12479

Alexander Wissner-Gross

#183938

Overall Influence

Alexander D. Wissner-Gross is an American research scientist and entrepreneur. He is a fellow at the Institute for Applied Computational Science at Harvard University. Education At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he researched nanotechnology, Wissner-Gross triple-majored in physics, electrical engineering and mathematics. He was awarded the Marshall Scholarship, and was the last student to triple-major at MIT before the option was discontinued. Wissner-Gross also has a Ph.D in physics from Harvard University.

#12480

James Mason

#61561

Overall Influence

James Mason is an Australian television and film actor and producer. He started his career participating in a series of short films and commercials. He then secured the role of Chris Pappas on the Australian soap opera Neighbours. Chris was the show's first ever gay male regular character and won Mason wide recognition, including a Logie nomination for Most Popular New Talent in 2012.

#12481

David Kuraoka

#130825

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

David Kuraoka is an American ceramic artist. He was born in Lihue, Hawaii, grew up on the island of Kauai, Hawaii in Hanamaulu and Lihue, and graduated from Kauai High School in 1964. Kuraoka spent his formative years in Hanamaulu where he lived with his parents in his paternal grandmother's home in a plantation labor camp. His father, one of seven children and the only son, became a journalist, writing a weekly column published on Wednesdays, and the Kauai campaign manager for local politician Hiram Fong and Richard Nixon. His mother, Emiko Kuraoka, was a school teacher. He is married to Carol Kuraoka.

#12482

Luc Courchesne

#112822

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Luc Courchesne D.F.A. is a Canadian artist and academic known for his work in interactive art. Life Luc Courchesne was born May 20, 1952, in Saint-Léonard-d'Aston, Quebec. He received a bachelor's degree in design from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1974. In the 1980s, he received a Master of Science degree in visual studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Courchesne was a member of the MIT Media Lab at its inception in 1985.

#12483

James R Welch

#188648

Overall Influence

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Dan Peterman

#93315

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Dan Peterman is an internationally known artist who is recognized for his work with ecologically themed installation art. Additionally, he is employed as associate professor of art at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

#12485

James Castle

#147594

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

James Castle is a Scottish sculptor and artist based in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. The majority of his work is carved in wood; there are also sculptures modelled in plaster and clay, some of which have been cast into bronze.

#12486

Ann Gale

#91234

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Ann Gale is an American figurative painter based in Seattle, Washington. She is known for her portrait paintings, which consist of an accumulation of small color patches expressing the changing light and the shifting position of her models over time. Some of her main influences are Lucian Freud, Alberto Giacometti, and Antonio López García.

#12487

Glenda Anthony

#168016

Overall Influence

Glenda Joy Anthony is a New Zealand mathematics teaching academic. She is currently a full professor at the Massey University. Academic career After a master's degree and a PhD 'Learning strategies in mathematics education' at Massey University, Anthony joined the staff at Massey and rose to be full professor in 2010.

#12488

Xinsheng Ling

#172265

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Xinsheng Sean Ling is a Chinese-American physicist and professor at Brown University. He is known for his work in condensed matter, in particular for his contributions to superconductivity, vortex physics, colloid physics, biophysics, and quantum physics. He joined the faculty of Brown University in 1996.

#12489

Manuel Linares

#183969

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Manuel Linares Alegret is a Spanish researcher. He is an astronomer and astrophysicist, with a specialty in high-energy astrophysics. His primary focus is on compact objects in binary systems, neutron stars and accretion streams. In 2018, he and his research group discovered the most massive neutron star that had been measured until then. It has 2.3 times the mass of the sun.

#12490

Ehsan H. Feroz

#117304

Overall Influence

Ehsan H. Feroz is a Bangladeshi-born Muslim American professor, researcher, and an author. He is a tenured full professor of accounting at the University of Washington Tacoma’s Milgard School of Business and served as the Director of the Master of Accounting Program.

#12491

Elaine Saunders

#175757

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Elaine Saunders is an associate professor at the Swinburne University of Technology and executive director of Blamey Saunders, as well as an inventor, entrepreneur. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science Technology and Engineering in 2019. She is one of only nine women out of 160 to win the Clunies Ross award for entrepreneurship, and has won many other awards, as well as given numerous keynote addresses on the value of entrepreneurship and innovation in STEMM.

#12492

David A. Ross

#188729

Overall Influence

#12493

Witold Abramowicz

#188742

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Witold Abramowicz may refer to:Witold Abramowicz , Lithuanian politicianWitold Abramowicz , Polish scientist

#12494

Hirsch Perlman

#147107

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Daniel Hirsch Perlman is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He is a professor of sculpture at UCLA. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and P.S.1 in New York. In 2010, Perlman's work was featured in the exhibition Stop. Move. at Blum & Poe Gallery in Los Angeles. He is represented by Blum & Poe Gallery in Los Angeles, California

#12495

Eli Bornstein

#160542

Overall Influence

1922 - Present (104 years)

Eli Bornstein is an American-born Canadian artist and teacher who has spent most of his life in Saskatchewan, Canada. He is known for his three-dimensional reliefs. Early years Eli Bornstein was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on December 28, 1922.

#12496

H. R. Chandrasekhar

#166604

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Holalkere Rangarao Chandrasekhar, known as "Chandra", was a professor of physics, department chair and director of graduate studies at the University of Missouri. He is an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and a past consultant to the United Nations Development under the TOKTEN project.

#12497

Dick Clark

#161720

Overall Influence

1929 - 2012 (83 years)

Richard Wagstaff Clark was an American television and radio personality and television producer who hosted American Bandstand from 1956 to 1989. He also hosted five incarnations of the Pyramid game show from 1973 to 1988 and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, which broadcast New Year's Eve celebrations in New York City's Times Square.

#12498

Liddy Nevile

#168001

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Elizabeth 'Liddy' Nevile is an Australian academic and a pioneer in using computers and the World Wide Web for education in Australia. In 1989-1990 she was instrumental in establishing the first program in the world that required all students to have laptop computers, at Methodist Ladies College, Melbourne, Australia.

#12499

Peter D'Agostino

#134214

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Peter d'Agostino is an artist and a professor of Film and Media Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia. Life Peter d'Agostino's pioneering photography, video and new media projects have been exhibited internationally in the form of installations, performances, telecom events, and broadcast productions during the past five decades. Surveys of his work include: Peter d”Agostino: COLD / HOT-Walks, Wars & Climate Change, Muhlenberg College, PA; World-Wide-Walks / between earth & sky / 1973- 2012, UPV / EHU Art Gallery, Bilbao, Spain; Between Earth & Sky: MX , Laboratorio Arte Alemeda, Mexico City; ...

#12500

Judith K. Brodsky

#102098

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Judith Kapstein Brodsky is an American artist, curator, and author known for her contributions to feminist discourse in the arts. She received her B.A. from Harvard University where she majored in Art History, and an M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art at Temple University. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Visual Arts at Rutgers, State University of New Jersey. A printmaker herself, Brodsky is founding Director of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper in 1996, later renamed the Brodsky Center in her honor in September 2006, and which later joined the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts in 2018.

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