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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#12851

Baker Ahmad Alserhan

Baker Ahmad Alserhan

#190308

Overall Influence

Baker Ahmad Alserhan is the author of The Principles of Islamic marketing He is the president of the International Islamic Marketing Association and the Chairman of the Global Islamic Marketing Conference .

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William Feaver

#51466

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

William Feaver is a British art critic, curator, artist and lecturer. From 1975–1998 he was the chief art critic of the Observer, and from 1994 a visiting professor at Nottingham Trent University. His book The Pitmen Painters inspired the play of the same name by Lee Hall.

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Debatosh Guha

#121489

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Debatosh Guha is an Indian researcher and educator. He is a Professor at the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics at the Rajabazar Science College, University of Calcutta. He is an Adjunct faculty at the National Institute of Technology Jaipur and had also served Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur as HAL Chair Professor for a period during 2015-2016.

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Dave Pearson

#86851

Overall Influence

1937 - 2008 (71 years)

David Samuel Pearson , commonly known as "Dave Pearson", was an English painter and educator who was "a great example of an artist whose life was completely dedicated to serving the imagination". Highly prolific, throughout his life he produced a prodigious quantity of work.

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David Driskell

#53446

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

David C. Driskell was an American artist, scholar and curator; recognized for his work in establishing African-American Art as a distinct field of study. In his lifetime, Driskell was cited as one of the world's leading authorities on the subject of African-American Art. Driskell held the title of Distinguished University Professor of Art, Emeritus, at the University of Maryland, College Park.

#12856

Davi Det Hompson

#81400

Overall Influence

1939 - 1996 (57 years)

Davi Det Hompson , also known as David E. Thompson, born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, and raised in Warren, Ohio, was a Fluxus book artist, concrete poet, creator of mail art, sculptor and painter living and working in Richmond, Virginia. Hompson's chosen professional name was a nom d'art for David E. Thompson and a transposition of the letters of his name.

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Ashleigh E Baber

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Overall Influence

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Samuel A. Banks

#78997

Overall Influence

1928 - 2000 (72 years)

Samuel Alston Banks served as president of several American colleges and universities. Education Banks received his bachelor's degree in English Literature from Duke University in 1949 and his Master of Divinity degree from Emory University in 1952. He received his Ph.D. in psychology and religion from the University of Chicago in 1971.

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Ken Kerslake

#98509

Overall Influence

1930 - 2007 (77 years)

Ken Kerslake was a printmaker and professor credited with being "one of a handful of printmaker-educators responsible for the growth of printmaking in the southeast in the years following World War II." Kerslake taught at the University of Florida in Gainesville, which gave him the title of Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus after his retirement.

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Robert B. Gaither

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Overall Influence

1929 - 2012 (83 years)

Robert B. Gaither was an American mechanical engineer, professor and chairman of the department of mechanical engineering at the University of Florida College of Engineering, and the 100th president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1981-82.

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Alice Brown

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Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Alice Brown is a Scottish academic who is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Edinburgh and Chancellor of the University of Abertay as of 2019. She was on the consultative steering group that advised on procedural aspects when the new Scottish Parliament was being set up. Her work included promoting the equal representation of women. She was the first Scottish Public Services Ombudsman, serving for two terms between 2002 and 2009, and was a member of the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council 2008–2012. She was a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life 1998–...

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Dusan Licina

#129508

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (40 years)

Dusan Licina is an engineer and researcher specializing in indoor air quality, building ventilation, and human exposure. He is a professor at EPFL and head of the Human-Oriented Built Environment Laboratory.

#12863

Ralph Wickiser

#156708

Overall Influence

1910 - 1998 (88 years)

Ralph Lewanda Wickiser was an American artist. He is most notable for painting in the styles of both Abstraction and representation, and for synthesizing the two in his own innovative style. Youth Wickiser was born in Greenup, Illinois. His earliest known paintings are watercolor landscapes from his second grade class, which showed notable talent for such a young artist.

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Lixia Zhang

#190358

Overall Influence

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Camille Martin

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Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Camille Martin is a Canadian poet and collage artist. After residing in New Orleans for fourteen years, in 2005 she moved to Toronto following Hurricane Katrina. Biography Early life and education Camille Martin was born in El Dorado, Arkansas, in 1956 and spent most of her childhood in Lafayette, Louisiana. In 1980 she earned a Master of Music in Piano Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music. In 1996 she received a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of New Orleans. Her thesis, a collection of poems entitled at peril, passed with distinction. In 2003 she received a PhD in English from Louisiana State University.

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Philip B. Meggs

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Overall Influence

1942 - 2002 (60 years)

Philip Baxter Meggs was an American graphic designer, professor, historian and author of books on graphic design. His book History of Graphic Design is a definitive, standard read for the study of graphic design.

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Brooks McNamara

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Overall Influence

1937 - 2009 (72 years)

Brooks Barry McNamara was an American theater historian, professor, and contributing editor of The Drama Review. Life McNamara was born in Peoria, Illinois. Upon graduation from Knox College, he pursued a Master of Arts degree at the University of Iowa. Following military service, McNamara earned his PhD in theater arts at Tulane University where Richard Schechner was a professor and editor of the Tulane Drama Review . After earning his PhD, McNamara taught theater history in the Drama Department at the University of Delaware, between 1966 and 1968. At Tulane, Schechner had crystallized a set of principles to describe environmental theater.

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Georg Eisler

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Overall Influence

1928 - 1998 (70 years)

Georg Eisler was an Austrian painter from the school of Oskar Kokoschka. His father Hanns Eisler was a composer and his mother Charlotte Eisler, née Demant a well-known singer and music teacher. His subject matter themes have included landscapes , group or crowd scenes as well as nudes and still lifes. He returned to Vienna in 1946 where he died in 1998.

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David Sylvester

#87434

Overall Influence

David Sylvester is president of University of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, Canada. Biography Born in Trail, British Columbia, he attended St. Thomas More Collegiate in Burnaby. He attended St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where he also played football. He finished his undergraduate degree at Niagara University in New York, before receiving his Master's and Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the Jesuit-led Fordham University in New York City. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled, "Maritime communities in pre-plague England: Winchelsea and the Cinque Ports". While at Fordham, Sylvester met his future wife, Allyson Larkin, who was in the same program.

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Mark Podwal

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Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Mark Podwal is an artist, author, filmmaker and physician. He may have been best known initially for his drawings on The New York Times Op-Ed page. In addition, he is the author and illustrator of numerous books. Most of these works — Podwal's own as well as those he has illustrated for others— typically focus on Jewish legend, history and tradition. His art is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Israel Museum, the National Gallery of Prague, the Jewish Museums in Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm, Prague, New York, among many other...

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Ana Torvisco

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Overall Influence

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Wendell Castle

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Overall Influence

1932 - 2018 (86 years)

Wendell Castle was an American sculptor and furniture maker and an important figure in late 20th century American craft. He has been referred to as the "father of the art furniture movement" and included in the "Big 4" of modern woodworking with Wharton Esherick, George Nakashima, and Sam Maloof.

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Tom Potokar

#190304

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Professor Thomas Stephen Potokar OBE is chair of the Centre for Global Burn Injury Policy & Research at Swansea University. He is the founder and director of the charity Interburns. External links

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Deborah F. Kelly

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Overall Influence

Deborah F. Kelly is an American biomedical engineer who is a professor at Pennsylvania State University. Her research makes use of cryogenic electron microscopy to better understand human development and disease. She serves as President of the Microscopy Society of America.

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Paul Reilly

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Overall Influence

Paul Reilly is a pioneer of virtual archaeology and data visualisation in archeology. He was a research scientist at the IBM UK Scientific Centre. He received his B.A. Honours degree in archaeology and history from the University of Leeds and his Ph.D in computer-based archaeological research, at the Research Centre for Computer Archaeology in North Staffordshire Polytechnic. He has worked on many archaeological excavation and field survey projects in Britain and elsewhere in Europe. From 1986 to 1989 he was an IBM UK Scientific Centre Research Fellow and became Research Scientist in 1989.

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Henry Dietz

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Overall Influence

Henry A. Dietz is an American professor and author, currently the Professor Emeritus and University Distinguished Teaching Professor of Government at University of Texas at Austin, and is largely collected by libraries worldwide. He was also added as a member to the Academy of Distinguished Teachers at University of Texas at Austin.

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Nikki Bart

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Overall Influence

Nikki Bart is an Australian mountain climber and medical doctor with a specialist interest in hypoxia secondary to high altitude. She and her mother, Cheryl Bart, were the first mother-daughter team to summit Mount Everest and complete the Seven Summits.

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Vincent Chang

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Overall Influence

Vincent Chang is an academic who was Vice-Chancellor and the inaugural President of BRAC University. Education Chang received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, and an MBA from Yale School of Management, a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from University of California, Berkeley and a second Ph.D. in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

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Marcia Resnick

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Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Marcia Resnick is an American photographer, author, and graphic artist. She was born and lives in New York City. Publications and exhibitions Resnick's book of photographs and text, Punks, Poets, and Provocateurs:New York City Bad Boys, 1977-1982, published November 10, 2015, has an Afterword written by Anthony Haden-Guest, and a contribution by Victor Bockris. An earlier book, published in 1978 by Resnick was Re-visions, which is now out of print.

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Evgenya Simakov

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Overall Influence

Evgenya Ivanovna Simakov is a Russian-American physicist whose research has involved photonic crystals, metamaterials with engineered band gaps that can be used to suppress unwanted resonances in particle accelerators. She has also worked on the design of small portable particle accelerators, and the use of nanoscale arrays of diamonds to control the shape of electron beams. She is a researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Ruth Horsting

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Overall Influence

1919 - 2000 (81 years)

Ruth Horsting, also known as Ma Renu was an American sculptor, professor, author, community organizer, philanthropist, and a student of Ashtanga Yoga. She is known for her bronze and steel sculptures, and taught at the University of California, Davis from 1959 to 1971. Horsting was the first female sculptor hired in the entire University of California system.

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Gilbert Luján

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Overall Influence

1940 - 2011 (71 years)

Gilbert "Magu" Luján was a well known and influential Chicano sculptor, muralist and painter. He founded the famous Chicano collective Los Four that consisted of artists Carlos Almaraz, Beto de la Rocha , Frank Romero and himself. In 1974, Judithe Hernández became the "fifth" and only female member of Los Four.

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Robert Singerman

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Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Robert Singerman is a librarian, and a recognized Judaica bibliographer. He is often cited by Judaica rare book dealers. He holds the position of University Librarian, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, where he was the bibliographer for Jewish Studies, Anthropology, and Linguistics.

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Ximena Aguilera

#68591

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Ximena Paz Aguilera Sanhueza is a Chilean physician and politician, currently serving as her country's Minister of Health since 6 September 2022. Biography Ximena Aguilera is the daughter of journalist and radio host . In 1987, she graduated as a surgeon from the University of Chile, from where she also holds a master's degree in public health. Aguilera was head of the Epidemiology Division of the Ministry of Health of Chile between 1999 and 2005, and then served as head of the Health Planning Division of the Ministry of Health until 2008. Between 2008 and 2010, she served as Senior Advisor f...

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Murray Kucherawy

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Overall Influence

Murray S. Kucherawy is a computer scientist, mostly known for his work on email standardization and open source software. He originated in Canada where he studied Mathematics, specializing in Computer Science, Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo, earning a Bachelor's degree in 1994.

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Irwin Kremen

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Overall Influence

1925 - 2020 (95 years)

Irwin Kremen was an American artist who began making art while Director of the Duke University Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology, when he was 41, after earning a PhD six years earlier in clinical psychology at Harvard University.

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Suzy Styles

#190458

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

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Amos Eiran

#69353

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Amos Eiran is a former president of the University of Haifa in Israel. He earned a BA in humanities from American University in Washington, DC, an MA in history from Tel Aviv University, a Diploma in Business Administration from Harvard University, and a Diploma in institutional investments from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Sam Nolutshungu

#74155

Overall Influence

1945 - 1997 (52 years)

Samuel Clement Nolutshungu was one of the foremost South African scholars, and an internationally acclaimed expert on South African politics. Born in King William's Town in 1945, he studied first in the Lovedale High School and after in the University of Fort Hare. Because of apartheid he left in the 1960s South Africa for England, and thanks to a scholarship went to Keele University where he obtained a first class degree in economics, history and politics. He successively taught in the Government Department of Manchester University between 1978 and 1990. From 1991 till his death he was profe...

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Ross Williams

#190471

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Ross Neil Williams is an Australian computer scientist and entrepreneur who has made significant contributions to data compression and data deduplication technologies. He is best known as the inventor of the and the founder of Rocksoft Pty Ltd.

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Ablade Glover

#51503

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Ablade Glover CV is a Ghanaian painter and educator. He has exhibited widely, building an international reputation over several decades, as well as being regarded as a seminal figure on the West African art scene. His work is held in many prestigious private and public collections, which include the Imperial Palace of Japan, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. He has received several national and international awards, including the Order of the Volta in Ghana, and is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London. He was Associate Professor, Head...

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K. T. Chandy

#24807

Overall Influence

1913 - 2006 (93 years)

K. T. Chandy was an Indian management education administrator and business executive. He was the founder-director of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, the first Indian Institute of Management.

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Kate Diesfeld

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Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Kate Diesfeld is a New Zealand health law academic. She is currently a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Academic career After earning a BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Colgate University in New York in 1982, Diesfeld received a Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego in 1988 and was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1989. Between 1993 and 2000, Diesfeld worked at Kent Law School and before the Mental Health Review Tribunal in England before moving to Auckland University of Technology, then the University of Waikato in New Zealand and then back to A...

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Samuel Nii Odai

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Overall Influence

Samuel Nii Odai is a Ghanaian professor of Hydraulics and Water Resources, and a serving Vice Chancellor of Accra Technical University. He is a Commonwealth Academic Fellow, and a recipient of the National Best Research Scientist Gold Award for water, environment and sanitation.

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Trevor Hale

#78150

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Trevor S. Hale is a professor of business analytics at Texas A&M University . He received his Ph.D. in Operations research from Texas A&M University, an MS in Engineering management from Northeastern University, and an BS in Industrial engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. Before joining the University of Houston-Downtown business faculty in 2006, Hale was an engineering faculty member at both Ohio University and Colorado State University-Pueblo as well as an engineer at Lockheed Martin. Additionally, Hale spends most of his summers as an Office of Naval Research Senior Faculty ...

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Alexi Worth

#143448

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Alexi Worth is a painter, curator, art critic, and writer who is known for his conceptually rich and visually graphic works that address modern life and artmaking. He is currently represented by DC Moore Gallery, New York.

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Jeanne Liotta

#169757

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Jeanne Liotta is an American visual artist who is primarily known for her experimental films. She is also currently a professor of film studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She lives between New York City and Colorado.

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Francisco Solano López

Francisco Solano López

#22512

Overall Influence

1928 - 2011 (83 years)

Francisco Solano López was an Argentine comics artist. He was the co-creator of El Eternauta. Career Born in Buenos Aires, Solano López began his career in 1953 working for the publishing house Columba where he illustrated the series Perico y Guillerma. Working for Editorial Abril he met Héctor Germán Oesterheld, assigned to illustrate his series Bull Rocket for the magazine Misterix. They collaborated on the series Pablo Maran and Uma-Uma, before joining to start Oesterheld's publishing house Editorial Frontera. For the Frontera's first publication of the monthly Hora Cero, the team produced the series Rolo el marciano adoptivo and El Héroe.

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Celine Marmion

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Overall Influence

Celine J. Marmion is a Professor of Chemistry at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and President of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland. Marmion is involved with the design of new chemotherapeutic drugs.

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Tom Worthington

#123642

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Thomas Worthington is an Australian computer programmer best known as an expert witness in the Maguire v SOCOG 2000 Olympic web accessibility case and teacher of Green computing. He is known for his ICT policy work and on-line teaching.

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