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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#12501

Madeleine Lim

#98295

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Madeleine Lim is a filmmaker, producer, director, cinematographer and LGBTQ activist. She is the founding Executive Director of the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project , and an adjunct professor of film studies at the University of San Francisco. Lim is also a co-founder of SAMBAL and the US Asian Lesbian Network in the San Francisco Bay Area.

#12502

C. Stanley Lewis

#106290

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

C. Stanley Lewis, or Stanley Lewis is an artist and art teacher. He was a member of the Bowery Gallery in New York City from 1986 to 2008 and of the Oxbow Gallery in Northampton, Massachusetts. Lewis is currently represented by the Betty Cuningham Gallery in New York City.

#12503

Ronald Werner-Wilson

#162735

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Ronald Jay Werner-Wilson , Chair of the Family Studies Department and Kathryn Louise Chellgren Endowed Professor for Research in Family Studies at the University of Kentucky, is a scholar who has held faculty appointments since 1993. His has published one book, book chapters, and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles. He has investigated family and relationship influences on adolescent and young adult sexuality, positive youth development, therapy with adolescents, gender and power influences on therapeutic process, and physiological influences on family interaction.

#12504

Giovanni Pighizzini

#172243

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Giovanni Pighizzini is an Italian theoretical computer scientist known for his work in formal language theory and particularly in state complexity of two-way finite automata. He earned his PhD in 1993 from the University of Milan, where he is a full professor since 2001. Pighizzini serves as the Steering Committee Chair of the annual Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems academic conference since 2006.

#12505

Ken Arnold

#188786

Overall Influence

#12506

Lee Paul

#174722

Overall Influence

1939 - 2019 (80 years)

Paul Lee Kroll, also known as Lee Paul, was an American film and television actor. He was perhaps best known for playing as the bodyguard of "Doyle Lonnegan" in the 1973 film The Sting, alongside actor Charles Dierkop who played the role of "Floyd".

#12507

Phil Jimenez

#92026

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Phil Jimenez is an American comics artist and writer known for his work as writer/artist on Wonder Woman from 2000 to 2003, as one of the five pencilers of the 2005–2006 miniseries Infinite Crisis, his collaborations with writer Grant Morrison on New X-Men and The Invisibles, and his artistry for his 2021 critically acclaimed partnership with writer Kelly Sue DeConnick on Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons.

#12508

Suzanne Jackson

Suzanne Jackson

#106798

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Suzanne Jackson is an American visual artist, gallery owner, poet, dancer, educator, and set designer; with a career spanning five decades. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. Since the late 1960s, Jackson has dedicated her life to studio art with additional participation in theatre, teaching, arts administration, community life, and social activism. Jackson's oeuvre includes poetry, dance, theater, costume design, paintings , prints, and drawings.

#12509

Jørgen Haugan

#38610

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Jørgen Haugan is a Norwegian author and lecturer. He was written a number of books, principally biographies of noted Scandinavian writers. Haugan earned a doctorate in philosophy in 1977 from the University of Copenhagen with a thesis on Henrik Ibsen.

#12510

Judith Hoffberg

#74801

Overall Influence

1934 - 2009 (75 years)

Judith Hoffberg was a librarian, archivist, lecturer, a curator and art writer, and editor and publisher of Umbrella, a newsletter on artist's books, mail art, and Fluxus art. Biography Hoffberg received a B.A. in Political Science from UCLA in 1956. She went on to get an M.A. in Italian Language and Literature in 1960 and an M.L.S. from the UCLA School of Library Service in June 1964.

#12511

Danica Galonić Fujimori

#184802

Overall Influence

Danica Galonić Fujimori is a Serbian-American chemical biologist who is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research considers nucleic acid synthesis and tissue engineering. In the search for new therapeutics and vaccines, she has studied the interactions between ribosomes and SARS-CoV-2.

#12512

Jennifer Angus

#88368

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Jennifer Angus is a Canadian artist, professor, and author. She is known for her site-specific installations that use large numbers of insects arranged in ornamental patterns that she has been creating since 1999. Angus anthropomorphizes insects in the hope that she can change people's entomophobia and create an interest in the role that insects play in ecosystems.

#12513

Florin Popențiu Vlădicescu

Florin Popențiu Vlădicescu

#181160

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

'Florin Popenţiu Vlădicescu' is Professor of Software Engineering. Career He is an associated Professor at University "Politehnica" of Bucharest and since the academic year of 1997/98, he has been appointed as "UNESCO professor" at City University, London. Before that, he was a visiting professor at a number of renowned European technical universities such as the ENST- Telecom ParisTech , the ETH-Zurich or Technical University of Denmark. Prof. Florin POPENTIU VLÃDICESCU has published over 100 papers in International Journals and Conference Proceedings and is co-author of 4 books.

#12514

Konstanty Maria Sopoćko

#149038

Overall Influence

1903 - 1992 (89 years)

Konstanty Maria Sopoćko was a Polish artist, specializing in woodcutting. He created posters, advertisements, logos, bookplates and illustrations. He lectured at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

#12515

Alvin Eli Amason

#100684

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Alvin Eli Amason is a Sugpiaq Alaskan painter and sculptor. He was raised in Kodiak and is of Alutiiq ancestry. He received his Master of Fine Arts from Arizona State University and taught for several years at Navajo Community College. For seventeen years, he taught at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and was the head of the Alaska Native Art studies program there. After retiring, he was asked to join the Department of Art at the University of Alaska, Anchorage and develop an Alaska Native Art curriculum.

#12516

Adam Sofronijević

#172825

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Adam Sofronijević is a Serbian library information specialist and university professor. He received several national awards for his work, worked as an organizer of a number of scientific and professional lectures and projects of national importance in the field of digitization in culture.

#12517

Judith Pringle

#151265

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Judith K. Pringle is a New Zealand organisational/social psychology academic. She is currently a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Academic career After a BSc in psychology and an OE in Asia and Europe, Pringle returned to the University of Otago for a 1983 PhD in social psychology titled 'The definition, structure and measurement of social skill.' After teaching at Deakin University and the University of Auckland she move to Auckland University of Technology.

#12518

Vanessa Tomlinson

#184150

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Vanessa Tomlinson is an Australian percussionist, composer, artistic director and educator. She is Director of Creative Arts Research Institute and Head of Percussion at Griffith University and has produced 150 publications. She is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Clocked Out, along with Erik Griswold.

#12519

Dennis Burton

#121646

Overall Influence

1933 - 2013 (80 years)

Dennis Burton was a Canadian modernist painter. Biography He was born in 1933 in Lethbridge, Alberta. He won a scholarship to Pickering College in Newmarket, and then attended the Ontario College of Art , studying with Jock Macdonald and Fred Hagan. He worked as a graphic designer for the Canadian Broadcasting Company until 1960 when he began painting full-time.

#12520

Hao Xiaojiang

#172863

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Hao Xiaojiang is a Chinese scientist currently working as a researcher, doctoral supervisor at the Kunming Institute of Botany. Biography Hao was born in Chongqing on July 10, 1951. During the Cultural Revolution in December 1968, he became a sent-down youth in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. In August 1971 he was transferred to a nitrogenous fertilizer plant as a worker. In 1973 he was accepted to Guizhou University, where he graduated in 1976. In 1985 he obtained his Master of Science degree from Kunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences . He earned his Do...

#12521

Pat Lauderdale

#100724

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Pat Lee Lauderdale was an American professor in the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University. He received his doctorate in the sociology of law from Stanford University. In 2008, he was appointed a visiting scholar at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. His teaching and research interests include indigenous jurisprudence, racialization, diversity, global indigenous struggles, law and the social science, and international terrorism. In the 1980s he helped create the Herbert Blumer Institute in Costa Rica with the goal of discovering and describing alternatives to violence and criminal law.

#12522

Randy Katz

#188893

Overall Influence

#12523

S. M. Imamul Huq

#141068

Overall Influence

S.M. Imamul Huq is a Bangladeshi academic. He was a professor of the Department of Soil, Water & Environment, University of Dhaka. He served as vice-chancellor of the University of Barisal from 2015 to 2019.

#12524

Ronald Alan Francisco

#188898

Overall Influence

#12525

David Huang

#188901

Overall Influence

#12526

Rick Gentile

#182799

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Rick Gentile is an American television, radio, and digital media sports program producer and executive. He had been a broadcaster and CBS Sports’ Executive Producer and Senior Vice President. Gentile won 10 Emmy Awards for his work with CBS.

#12527

Lei Sun

#136291

Overall Influence

Lei Sun is a Chinese and Canadian statistical geneticist at the University of Toronto, where she is affiliated both with the department of biostatistics in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the department of statistical sciences in the faculty of arts and science.

#12528

Huazhen Lin

#158082

Overall Influence

Huazhen Lin is a Chinese statistician known for her research on survival analysis and nonparametric statistics. She works as a professor of statistics and director of the Center of Statistical Research at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu.

#12529

Jules Davids

#36522

Overall Influence

1920 - 1996 (76 years)

Jules Davids was a professor of diplomatic history at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University until his retirement in 1986. A prolific author, his most famous work was undoubtedly his editorial assistance on Profiles in Courage, a surprise bestseller that won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for biography for its author, Senator John F Kennedy. He graduated from Brooklyn College. Davids received $700 for his labors and acknowledgement in the foreword that he "materially assisted in the preparation of several chapters," but extensive revelations from many sources, includi...

#12530

Ge Wang

#188594

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Ge Wang is a Chinese American professor, musician, computer scientist, designer, and author, known for inventing the ChucK audio programming language and for being the co-founder, chief technology officer , and chief creative officer of Smule, a company making iPhone and iPad music apps. He also helped create the Princeton Laptop Orchestra and later founded its Stanford counterpart Stanford Laptop Orchestra, as well as the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra. Wang is the designer of the Ocarina and Magic Piano iPhone apps. Wang is currently an associate professor at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics .

#12531

Oleg Kosterin

#173054

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Oleg Kosterin is a Russian genetic and entomologist, specializing at Odonata. He discovered and described a number of species and several have been named after him by other scientists. Species named after him Drepanosticta kosterini Dow, 2017 Asiagomphus kosterini Kompier, 2018 Dolychopus kosterini Grichanov, 2017 Alucita kosterini Ustjuzhanin, 1999Stenoptilia kosterini Ustjuchanin, 2001Cernyia kosterini Dubatolov et Buczek, 2013Lyclene kosterini Dubatolov et Buczek, 2013Coenosia kosterini Vikhrev, 2009 .Thricops kosterini Vikhrev, 2013 .Cordilura kosterini Ozerov et Krivosheina .

#12532

Frank Cooper

#74328

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Frank Cooper is currently Research Professor Emeritus, Musicology, at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami , since retiring from his professorship in 2013, and is internationally known as the founder of the Festival of Neglected Romantic Music.

#12533

Stanley Salmons

#96135

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Stanley Salmons is a British academic and scientist. A Professor Emeritus of Medical Cell Biology at Liverpool University, he is known for his pioneering research in the neurology, biochemistry and physiology of skeletal muscle. In 1967 he designed the first implantable neuromuscular stimulator and in 1969 he "was the first to introduce the design of the buckle-type transducer for recording directly in vivo tendon forces in animals." His 1976 work with the implanted electrical "pacemakers" on rabbit muscles clarified the relationship between nerve signals and muscle chemistry and established...

#12534

Bushra Ateeq

#51319

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Bushra Ateeq is a Professor and a Senior Fellow of the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance in the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering , IIT Kanpur specializing in cancer biology and molecular oncology. She was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Medical Sciences in the year 2020. Her research interest involves exploration of the genetic and epigenetic changes that initiate cancer and its progression. She is also focusing on understanding the molecular events that drive cancer and resistance towards chemotherapeutic drugs.

#12535

Robin Wood

#86024

Overall Influence

1953 - 2021 (68 years)

Robin Wood was an American artist specializing in game art and fantasy. She is best known for her portraits of characters from Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, the Robin Wood Tarot Deck and the cover art for several of Scott Cunningham's books on neo-Paganism.

#12536

Erwin Steinberg

#102363

Overall Influence

1920 - 2012 (92 years)

Erwin Ray Steinberg was an American scholar and professor. He began teaching at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, now known as Carnegie Mellon University, in 1946, fresh from the U.S. Army Air Force. He was the dean of Carnegie Tech's Margaret Morrison Carnegie College from 1960 until it closed in 1973, and he was the first dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. He also held the Thomas S. Baker Professorship of English and Interdisciplinary Studies from 1981 to 1993, and in 1991 he was named Carnegie Mellon's first vice provost for education. In October 2006, at ...

#12537

Alex Rodriguez

#188952

Overall Influence

#12538

Morteza Momayez

Morteza Momayez

#23626

Overall Influence

1935 - 2005 (70 years)

Morteza Momayez was an Iranian graphic designer. He was one of the founders of Iranian Graphic Design Society and held a membership to Alliance Graphique Internationale . He was the president of Tehran International Poster Biennial and Editor-in-chief of “Neshan”. Throughout his career, Momayez initiated many cultural institutes, exhibitions and graphic design publications. In 2004, Momayez received the Art & Culture Award of Excellency from President Mohammad Khatami.

#12539

Reza Abedini

#30696

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Reza Abedini is an Iranian graphic designer and a professor. His works keep a modern theme as he blends traditional Islamic patterns, calligraphy and culture. He combines simple illustrations with poetic typography and elegant layouts, exploring the beauty of the Persian language. He is also an art critic, independent art director with Reza Abedini Studio and the editor-in-chief of Manzar magazine in Iran.

#12540

Niranjan Parajuli

#126891

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Niranjan Parajuli is a Nepali chemist, biochemist and biotechnologist, who was President of Nepal Chemical Society and Professor of Chemistry at the Central Department of Chemistry, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Parajuli is also an advocate for change in the Nepali education system, writing op-eds for national dailies, particularly focusing on higher education. EduRank has sorted Professor Parajuli as a notable alumnus of Tribhuvan University.

#12541

Frank Okada

#95229

Overall Influence

1931 - 2000 (69 years)

Frank Okada was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, mainly active in the Pacific Northwest. His mature style often featured brightly colored, off-kilter geometric shapes done in large format, including round canvasses; subtly elaborate brushwork suggested the influence of both traditional Asian art and the "mystics" of the Northwest School. His later work at times used symbolic shapes which more directly evoked his Nisei heritage and the years he spent in detention camps with his family during World War II.

#12542

Eric Fischl

#16466

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Eric Fischl is an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, draughtsman and educator. He is known for his paintings depicting American suburbia from the 1970s and 1980s. Life Fischl was born in New York City and grew up on suburban Long Island; his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, in 1967. His art education began at Phoenix College for two years, followed with studying at Arizona State University. Followed by studying at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, where he received a B.F.A. in 1972. He then moved to Chicago, taking a job as a guard at the Museum of Contempora...

#12543

Sinéad Farrell

#187480

Overall Influence

Sinéad Louise Farrell is a British-American space scientist who is Professor of Geographic Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research considers remote sensing and climate monitoring. She was science lead for the ICESat-2 Mission, which used laser altimetryy to make height maps of Earth.

#12544

Jerry Lawson

#182894

Overall Influence

1940 - 2011 (71 years)

Gerald Anderson Lawson was an American electronic engineer. He is known for his work in designing the Fairchild Channel F video game console as well as leading the team that pioneered the commercial video game cartridge. He was thus dubbed the "father of the videogame cartridge" according to Black Enterprise magazine in 1982. He eventually left Fairchild and founded the game company Video-Soft.

#12545

Jeanine Oleson

#150183

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Jeanine Oleson is an American interdisciplinary artist working with images, materials and language that she forms into complex and humorous objects, performance, film, video, sound, and installation. Oleson's work explores themes including audience, language, land/site, music, and late Capitalist alienation

#12546

Milford Zornes

#62624

Overall Influence

1908 - 2008 (100 years)

James Milford Zornes was an American watercolor artist and teacher known as part of the California Scene Painting movement. Biography Milford Zornes was born in rural western Oklahoma, a few miles from the small town of Camargo. His father found farming and stock raising in the area difficult, and when young Milford was seven moved the family to Boise, Idaho. Though his mother, a former schoolteacher, taught him to draw as a child, it was not until his late teens, when the family moved to California, that Zornes received any formal training in art when he attended his last year of secondary s...

#12547

Troy Brauntuch

#82065

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Troy Brauntuch is an American artist. He lives in Austin, Texas. He graduated from California Institute of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1975. He was an adjunct professor at Columbia University and currently teaches at the University of Texas.

#12548

Babette Mangolte

#139161

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Babette Mangolte is a French cinematographer, film director, and photographer who has lived and worked in the United States since 1970. Life and career Mangolte was born and raised in France and moved to New York City in 1970. She attended L'Ecole Nationale de la Photographie et de la Cinematographie, graduating in 1966. Her move to New York was prompted by a disillusionment with the French film industry's male dominated climate, and an interest in experimental works by American filmmakers such as Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage. In the 1970s she began documenting the performance works of notable choreographers such as Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, David Gordon, and Yvonne Rainer.

#12549

Christian Jankowski

#78504

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Christian Jankowski is a contemporary multimedia artist who largely works with video, installation and photography. He lives and works in Berlin and New York. Work Jankowski's work has been associated with New Gothic Art and compared with artists like Rirkrit Tiravanija, Gillian Wearing, and Pierre Huyghe. Using various media formats, the collaborative nature of his practice is paramount as each participant unwittingly contributes his or her own texture to the work.

#12550

C. Brooklyn Derr

#112267

Overall Influence

C. Brooklyn Derr was the Staheli Professor of International Business and the director of the Global Business Management Center at the Marriott School of Management of Brigham Young University . Derr is a Latter-day Saint. He served a mission for the LDS Church in France. He is married to LDS women's historian Jill Mulvay Derr. They are the parents of four children.

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