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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#12551

Tommy Fitzpatrick

#142419

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Tommy Fitzpatrick is an American artist. He is known for his work depicting urban architectural forms in his paintings. Fitzpatrick is also an associate professor at Texas State University in San Marcos.

#12552

Jean C. Chance

#84238

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Jean C. Chance is an American academic. She received her JM and MA from the University of Florida. She has served as a member of the Hearst Awards Committee for 25 of those years, and was also the chairman as well. In addition Chance has been a faculty member at UF since 1969. She was a professor of Journalism until her retirement in 2003, and was inducted into the UF Hall of Fame and Independent Florida Alligator Hall of Fame; she served as chairwoman of the Campus Communications Inc. board and Gator Wesley Foundation board.

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John Byrne

#149164

Overall Influence

1933 - 2016 (83 years)

John Gabriel Byrne was an Irish computer scientist and engineer. He founded the department of computer science in Trinity College Dublin, serving as its first head and professor, and has been referred to as "The Father of Computing in Ireland".

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Predrag Keros

#84650

Overall Influence

1933 - 2018 (85 years)

Predrag Keros, MD, PhD was a Croatian doctor and professor, known for developing the Keros classification technique. Biography He was born in Zagreb. He earned his MD and PhD from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb.

#12555

Dana Fisman

#164254

Overall Influence

Dana Fisman is an Israeli computer scientist whose research has included work on the reconstruction of automaton-based models in computational learning theory including induction of regular languages, on temporal logic and the Property Specification Language, and on program synthesis. She is an associate professor of computer science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

#12556

Italo Tajo

#170344

Overall Influence

1915 - 1993 (78 years)

Italo Tajo was an Italian operatic bass, particularly acclaimed for his Mozart and Rossini roles. Tajo was born in Pinerolo, Piedmont, Italy and studied violin and voice at the Music Conservatory of Turin with Nilde Stichi-Bertozzi. He made his stage debut in 1935, as Fafner , under Fritz Busch. At Busch's invitation, he followed him to Glyndebourne, where he became a member of the chorus, also appearing in comprimario roles.

#12557

Nermin Gözükırmızı

#89060

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Nermin Gözükırmızı, scientific advisor and professor in Istanbul University, was born on June 18, 1951, in İzmit, Turkey. She enrolled in the Department of Botany-Zoology in Istanbul University in 1967 and graduated in 1972. She started as a PhD student at Department of Botanic and Genetic, PhD thesis entitled: Effects of some chemicals and rays on Vicia faba , defended in 1979.

#12558

François Chaumette

#159985

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

François Chaumette is an electrical engineer at the University of Rennes 1 in Rennes, France. Chaumette was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for his contributions to vision-based robot control.

#12559

George Shaw

#72768

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

George Thomas Shaw is an English contemporary artist who is noted for his suburban subject matter. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2011. Biography Shaw first attracted attention for painting the estate where he grew up in the 1970s, in the Tile Hill suburb of Coventry. Shaw studied art at Sheffield Polytechnic and received a BA in 1989. In 1998, he completed an MA in painting from London's Royal College of Art.

#12560

Yoshihiro Shiroishi

#178490

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Yoshihiro Shiroishi was born in 1951 in Tokyo, Japan. He is a Chief Architect and Technical Advisor at the Hitachi Research & Dev. Group, Tokyo, Japan. Shiroishi was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for leadership in the development of high density magnetic recording technologies and devices.

#12561

Isa Marte Hussaini

#89042

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Isa Marte Hussaini is a Nigerian professor of pharmacology and fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science, inducted into the academy in 2013. He specialized in cancer research and is currently exploring the use of local herbs for cancer therapy. His report to the Nigerian Academy of Science on the use of local herbs for Cancer therapy suggested that herbal plants are more efficacious than the current drugs used in cancer treatments. In May 2015, he presented a paper entitled: “The mining of Nigerian medicinal plants for cancer therapy” in Abuja at the induction of Fellows of the Nigeria Academy...

#12562

Norbert Zeh

#168141

Overall Influence

Norbert Zeh is a German computer scientist, currently a Canada Research Chair at Dalhousie University.

#12563

Ulla von Brandenburg

#120797

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Ulla von Brandenburg is a German artist. She lives and works in Paris. She shows her work internationally and is one of the four finalists nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2016. Background Ulla von Brandenburg was trained in Germany at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in scenography. She also studied visual arts at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg.

#12564

Edit Doron

#84411

Overall Influence

1951 - 2019 (68 years)

Edit Doron was an Israeli academic specializing in linguistics. Personal life and education Doron was born in Jerusalem. She earned a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1983. From 1984 to 1985 she held a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University.

#12565

Ed Pien

#120024

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Ed Pien is a Canadian contemporary artist, known for his drawings and large-scale drawing-based installations inspired by multiple sources and traditions, printmaking, paper cuts and video and photography.

#12566

Amy Adler

#138194

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Amy Adler is an American visual artist. She works in multiple mediums, using photography, film and drawing. She is currently a professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. She has had one-person shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and The Aspen Art Museum as well as galleries worldwide.

#12567

Vlado Kristl

#171785

Overall Influence

1923 - 2004 (81 years)

Vladislav "Vlado" Kristl was a filmmaker and artist, best known for his animations and short films. Biography Vladislav "Vlado" Kristl was born 24 January 1923 in Zagreb, Croatia. Kristl first came to international prominence for his formally challenging and rigorous animations, particularly Don Kihot . The film is a "graphical and abstract masterpiece which went beyond all existing conventions" and was awarded the main prize at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. Kristl regarded this film, which was not his first, as the one where he "was finally given a free rein".

#12568

Scott Williams

#142321

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Scott Williams is an American comic book artist, best known for his work as an inker, and for his decades-long partnership with artist Jim Lee, both of whom began their career with Homage Studios, collaborating on books including The Uncanny X-Men, WildCATs, Batman, Superman, WildC.A.T.s/X-Men, All-Star Batman and Robin, and Justice League. Williams has also inked the pencils of Whilce Portacio and Marc Silvestri, and books including Gen¹³.

#12569

Amalendu Krishna

#87179

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Amalendu Krishna is an Indian mathematician in the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore, specializing in algebraic cycles and K-theory. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, India's highest prize for excellence in science, mathematics and technology, in the mathematical sciences category in the year 2016.

#12570

Lisa Adams

#104874

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Lisa Adams is an American painter who emerged in the mid-1980s. She is best known for her oil paintings of imaginary worlds that address both personal and collective realities. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the public collections of LACMA, Eli Broad, the San Jose Museum of Art, the USC Fisher Museum of Art, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, the Frederick R. Weisman Museum and the Laguna Museum of Art. She lives and works in downtown Los Angeles, California.

#12571

John R Reynolds

#189105

Overall Influence

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Robert Chapman Turner

#66325

Overall Influence

1913 - 2005 (92 years)

Robert Chapman Turner was an American potter known for his functional pottery, sculptural vessels and inspired teaching. Born in Port Washington, New York, Turner attended Swarthmore College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1936. He then studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1949. Turner established the studio pottery program at Black Mountain College in North Carolina between 1949 and 1951. Later he returned to Alfred Station, establishing himself as a studio potter.

#12573

Michael J. Battle

#64056

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Michael Jesse Battle is an Episcopal moral theologian known for his works on spirituality, reconciliation, and the thought of Desmond Tutu. Biography Born in New Orleans, Battle received a B.A. in 1986 from Duke University, an M.Div. in 1989 from Princeton Theological Seminary, a S.T.M. in 1991 from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in 1995 in theology and ethics from Duke University.

#12574

Peter James Thomas

Peter James Thomas

#187165

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Peter James Thomas is a British academic and entrepreneur. Biography Thomas was educated at Mexborough Grammar School, South Yorkshire, York St. John University, the University of Cambridge and the University of Hull. Following a PhD at The University of Hull in the applications of social science to computing, he lectured in Human-Computer Interaction at Brunel University, West London between 1990–1992 and became Professor of Information Management at the University of the West of England, Bristol in 1993. He is currently inaugural director of FORWARD, The Centre for Future Skills and Workforc...

#12575

Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen

#47783

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen is a Finnish theologian. He is Professor of Systematic Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is an ordained Lutheran minister and an expert on Pentecostal-Charismatic theologies.

#12576

Timir Datta

#38487

Overall Influence

Timir Datta is an Indian-American physicist specializing in high transition temperature superconductors and a professor of physics in the department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of South Carolina, in Columbia, South Carolina.

#12577

Ian Bell

#90318

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Ian Frederick Andrew Bell is a British academic, and has been Professor of American Literature at the University of Keele since 1992. External links https://web.archive.org/web/20130803020819/http://www.keele.ac.uk/americanstudies/people/bellian/

#12578

David Watkins

#85312

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

David Watkins is a British artist who has designed the medals for the London 2012 Olympics. Watkins was also a special effects maker for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Life Watkins was born in Wolverhampton in 1940 and he is a graduate of the University of Reading where he met his lifelong partner Wendy Ramshaw.

#12579

Ole Andersen

#189135

Overall Influence

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Davita Watkins

#161430

Overall Influence

Davita L. Watkins is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Mississippi, where her research interest is in developing supramolecular synthesis methods to make new organic semiconducting materials for applications in optoelectronic devices, as well as studying their structural, optical, and electronic properties. Her group also investigates the design of dendrimer molecules for biomedical applications.

#12581

Joachim Drevs

#101602

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Joachim Drevs is a German medical specialist in internal medicine with a focus on hematology and oncology, as well as a university professor at the University Medical Center Freiburg and former leader of the Health Center at the University Clinic in Tübingen.

#12582

Jolene Rickard

#169687

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Jolene Rickard, born 1956, citizen of the Tuscarora Nation, Turtle clan, is an artist, curator and visual historian at Cornell University, specializing in indigenous peoples issues. Rickard co-curated two of the four permanent exhibitions for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

#12583

Ahmad Nourbakhsh

Ahmad Nourbakhsh

#124736

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Seyyed Ahmad Nourbakhsh is an Iranian engineer and professor of turbomachinery at the University of Tehran. He was elected to the 73-seats Assembly of Experts for Constitution in 1979. Nourbakhsh was "one of the more cosmopolitan members of the Assembly who saw the need to formulate a constitution that was congruent with international law". He was reportedly against inclusion of Velayat Faqih in the constitution of Iran.

#12584

Alan Collins

#73701

Overall Influence

1928 - 2016 (88 years)

Alan Collins was an English-born sculptor noted for his work at Guildford Cathedral. After continuing his career in England, Collins moved to the United States and continued working there as an artist and, for more than 20 years, as a professor of art at Seventh-day Adventist universities.

#12585

John-Ross Rizzo

#152610

Overall Influence

John-Ross Rizzo, M.D., M.S.C.I., is an American physician-scientist known for his significant contributions to the field of healthcare and rehabilitation. He holds the prestigious Melamid Professorship in Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center. Dr. Rizzo has made remarkable strides in the areas of disability inclusion, innovation, and equity within the medical community. At NYU Langone Medical Center, Dr. Rizzo serves as the first Health System Director of Disability Inclusion, a role that reflects his commitment to promoting accessibility and inclusivity within healthcare. Ad...

#12586

Dmitry Oboznenko

Dmitry Oboznenko

#71597

Overall Influence

1930 - 2002 (72 years)

Dmitry Georgievich Oboznenko was a Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist, Honored Artist of the RSFSR who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg. He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists , regarded as a representative of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre compositions and combat paintings of the siege of Stalingrad. He was a noted poster and caricature artist, a member of The Fighting Pencil Group.

#12587

Sunny Sanwar

#133077

Overall Influence

1989 - Present (37 years)

Sahibzada Sanwar Azam Sunny is a Bangladeshi-born American artist, environmental activist and entrepreneur. He became fluent in multiple languages and is one of the youngest artists to have a solo exhibition at the National Art Gallery with work in permanent collection at the Liberation War Museum. He finished four years of American high school in eight months with honours and was a college senior by the age of eighteen, teaching university courses in engineering at the age of 21.

#12588

Shridhar Sathe

#91377

Overall Influence

1950 - 2019 (69 years)

Shridhar Krishna Sathe was an Indian-born American scientist who was a distinguished professor of food science at Florida State University. He is widely cited as an authority on the role of proteins in food allergy.

#12589

Zachary Fabri

#160553

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Zachary Fabri is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Early life and education Fabri received his BFA from University of Florida in 2000, studied photography at Universität der Künste, Berlin and received his Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College in 2007 in Combined Media.

#12590

Nashlie Sephus

#186925

Overall Influence

Nashlie H. Sephus is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur specialized in machine learning and algorithmic bias identification. She is a technology evangelist at Amazon Web Services. Sephus is cofounder and chief executive officer of Bean Path, a nonprofit startup company developing Jackson Tech District, a planned community and business incubator in Jackson, Mississippi.

#12591

George Albert Harris

George Albert Harris

#79768

Overall Influence

1913 - 1991 (78 years)

George Albert Harris, also known as George Harris , was an American painter, muralist, lithographer, and educator. He was a participant in the WPA Federal Art Project and was among the youngest artists on the mural project at Coit Tower. Harris' style is California Modernism, often working in abstraction, focusing primarily on still lifes and portraits.

#12592

Xi Yin

#189199

Overall Influence

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Gilles Guyot

#34596

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Gilles Guyot is a management professor at the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 in Lyon, France. Guyot was born in Roanne, Loire. He is the current dean of the university business school, the IAE of Lyon. He was re-elected in this function in July 2007. Guyot had already been the dean of this business school from 1990 to 1997.

#12594

Joseph W. Bruno

#133970

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Joseph W. Bruno is an American academic and former university administrator. He became the 18th president of Marietta College on July 1, 2012. Dr. Bruno took over for Dr. Jean A. Scott, who retired after 12 years. Formerly, he was the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Wesleyan University , Dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Wesleyan and worked at Wesleyan since 1984, beginning as a chemistry professor

#12595

James H. Morris

#189228

Overall Influence

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Shari Wiseman

#168260

Overall Influence

Shari Wiseman is an American neuroscientist and the editor in chief of Nature Neuroscience. Education Wiseman has two PhDs from Yale University and undertook postdoctoral research at the Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center where she worked on animal models of autism spectrum disorders. After that, she undertook postdoctoral training at Tufts University where she focused on the regulation of GABAB receptors by excitotoxic stimuli.

#12597

Alison Hanlon

#185602

Overall Influence

Alison Jane Hanlon is a veterinary research scientist who advocates for animal welfare, including that of companion animals, horses and farm animals. She is a professor at University College Dublin and has worked on a number of government advisory groups.

#12598

Konstantinos Drosatos

#180887

Overall Influence

Konstantinos Drosatos , born in Athens, Greece, is a Greek-American molecular biologist, who is the Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of Pharmacology and Systems Physiology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. His parents were Georgios Drosatos and Sofia Drosatou; his family originates in Partheni, Euboea, Greece.

#12599

William H. Quillian

#106351

Overall Influence

William Howell Quillian is an American literary critic and James Joyce scholar. He is Professor Emeritus of English at Mount Holyoke College. Background Quillian graduated with an A.B. in English from Princeton University in 1965 after completing a senior thesis titled "The Name of Adam: A Study of Henry Miller." He then received a B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge University in 1973 and returned to Princeton for graduate studies. He received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1975 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Prince Hamlet in the age of modernism: James Joyce and T.S. Eliot....

#12600

Lionel Stander

#53840

Overall Influence

1908 - 1994 (86 years)

Lionel Jay Stander was an American actor in films, radio, theater and television. He is best remembered for his role as majordomo Max on the 1980s mystery television series Hart to Hart. Early life Lionel Stander was born in The Bronx, New York City, to Russian-Jewish immigrants, the eldest of three children.

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