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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#12951

Riyad Hamzah

#112869

Overall Influence

Riad Youssef Hamzah is a Bahraini academic who serves as the seventh President of the University of Bahrain. Early life and education Hamzah received his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Houston in 1984.

#12952

Angelo Dalli

#190239

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Angelo Dalli is a computer scientist specialising in artificial intelligence, a serial entrepreneur, and business angel investor. Early life and education Dalli was born in Malta and grew up in the town of Birżebbuġa. Dalli was educated at the Archbishop's Seminary, Malta and represented Malta in the Young European Environmental Research contest held in Cologne in 1994. Dalli represented Malta in the International Olympiad in Informatics held in Eindhoven in 1995, where he won a bronze medal. Dalli started selling computer software as a teenager, and worked for the International Data Group as...

#12953

Heinz Emigholz

#114842

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Heinz Emigholz is a filmmaker, actor, artist, writer and producer. He lives and works in Berlin and Malta. Emigholz has produced a comprehensive filmic and artistic oeuvre and has also done performance art and acted in other directors’ films .

#12954

Elenora A. Cawthon

#182329

Overall Influence

1917 - 2016 (99 years)

Elenora Albrecht Cawthon was a professor and university leader at Louisiana Tech. She served as president of the College Placement Council in 1972-1973 and was an officer of the American Association of University Women in the 1950s.

#12955

Benjamín Nahum

#80754

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Benjamín Nahum is a Uruguayan historian, professor, and researcher. He is professor of Economic History at the University of the Republic. In 1979 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship. His daughter was television journalist and writer Ana Nahum.

#12956

Alan LeQuire

#47622

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Alan LeQuire is an American sculptor from Nashville, Tennessee. Many of his sculptures are installed in the city. Early life Alan LeQuire was born in 1955. His father, Virgil, was a physician and researcher on the faculty of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. His mother, Louise, was a painter, art teacher, and writer. The young LeQuire showed an early interest in sculpture. While an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University, he studied independently under professor of sculpture Puryear Mims and Middle Tennessee State University sculptor Jim Gibson. He spent his senior year in France, studied art history, and earned a degree in English.

#12957

Jeffrey William Seifert

#190645

Overall Influence

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Harry C. Payne

#57436

Overall Influence

1947 - 2008 (61 years)

Harry C. "Hank" Payne was the 17th president of Hamilton College , the 14th president of Williams College , and later president of Woodward Academy. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, he earned academic degrees in history from Yale University, and taught at Colgate University before becoming provost of Haverford College and then president at Hamilton and Williams. He is known for disputing the story that Zephaniah Swift Moore, in his attempt to move Williams College closer to Boston, pilfered its library.

#12959

Norie Neumark

#104064

Overall Influence

Norie Neumark is a sound and media artist who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. She is part of the art group Out-of-Sync, an art collaboration with Maria Miranda. Work Neumark was Professor of Media Art at University of Technology, Sydney, where she was founding Director of the Centre for Media Arts Innovation at UTS.

#12960

Tim Head

#54345

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Tim Head is a British artist. Biography Born in London, Head studied at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1965 to 1969, where his teachers included Richard Hamilton and Ian Stephenson. His contemporary students included Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry. In 1968 Head went to New York City, where he worked as an assistant to Claes Oldenburg, and met Robert Smithson, Richard Serra, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, John Cale and others. Head studied on the Advanced Sculpture Course run by Barry Flanagan at Saint Martin's School of Art, London, in 1969. In 1971 he worked as an assistant to Robert Morris on his Tate Gallery show.

#12961

Amal Al Khedairy

#92966

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (98 years)

Amal Al Khedairy is an Iraqi academic, lecturer, scholar, art historian and founder and director of the cultural centre "Al Beit Al Iraqi" in Baghdad. The centre would focus mostly on reviving Iraqi crafts and finding new avenues for them, as well as concerts and lectures; being the only institution of its kind in Baghdad to do so during the 90s. It was the only private center in Iraq focusing on Iraqi craft and heritage in Baghdad during the mid eighties until the fall of Baghdad on 9 April 2003.

#12962

Richard Gershon

#83209

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Ira Richard Gershon is a former Dean of the University of Mississippi School of Law and current professor at the school. He came to the University of Mississippi after being the Founding Dean of the Charleston School of Law in Charleston, South Carolina.

#12963

Simon Fraser

#173503

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Simon Fraser is a British comics artist and writer best known for his work on Nikolai Dante, a series he created with writer Robbie Morrison in 2000 AD, and Tales of the Night Watchman for So What? Press.

#12964

Alison Dougall

#148241

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Alison Dougall is Associate Professor and Director of the Special Care Dentistry doctorate programme at Trinity College Dublin, Head of Department of Child and Dental Public Health at Trinity College Dublin and Consultant for medically complex patients at Dublin Dental Hospital.

#12965

William R. Simpson

William R. Simpson

#128081

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

William R. Simpson is an American chemist. He is a pioneer in the field of snow chemistry. He is also a current researcher at University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute and International Arctic Research Center and an associate professor in the chemistry department. He is the principal investigator of the atmospheric chemistry group and director of the university's NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates program.

#12966

Donald Weber

#75310

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Donald Weber is a literary critic and a specialist in Jewish American literature and film studies. He is the Lucia, Ruth, and Elizabeth MacGregor Professor of English and Chair of the English department at Mount Holyoke College.

#12967

Michael Ley

#190681

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

#12968

Brigitte Kowanz

#67520

Overall Influence

1957 - 2022 (65 years)

Brigitte Kowanz was an Austrian artist. Kowanz studied from 1975 to 1980 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She was Professor of Transmedial Art there from 1997. Works Since the 1980s, Brigitte Kowanz's work focused on the investigation of space and light. At the beginning of this period, between 1979 and 1984, she produced paper and screen images with phosphorescent and fluorescent pigments in collaboration with Franz Graf. From 1984, Kowanz developed her first light objects from bottles, fluorescent lamps and fluorescent paint. Complex spatial images and light-shadow-projections were...

#12969

Adam Shoemaker

#57239

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Adam Maximilian Shoemaker is a Canadian-Australian academic and higher education administrator, and a scholarly authority within the field of Indigenous Australian literature. He currently serves as Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University.

#12970

Roger Groot

#76832

Overall Influence

1942 - 2005 (63 years)

Roger Douglas Groot was the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia, where he had taught since 1973. Prior to graduating law school, he'd served six years in the United States Marine Corps, including a tour in Vietnam as an advisor to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. He was an expert in criminal law and procedure, and the death penalty. Groot had been appointed counsel in several Virginia capital cases, appointed as defense legal analyst in federal death penalty cases, and consulted in several hundred capital cases, including Lee Boyd Malvo and Peter Odighizuwa .

#12971

Agatha Jassem

#87739

Overall Influence

Agatha Jassem is a Canadian clinical microbiologist and the program head of the Virology Lab at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Public Health Laboratory, and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Elizabeth Bradley

#187508

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Elizabeth Bradley is a drama professional and educator appointed Chair of the Department of Drama, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, United States, on 1 June 2008. She chairs the US board of the National Theatre of Scotland.

#12973

Darlyne Bailey

#190706

Overall Influence

Dr. Darlyne Bailey is Professor and Dean Emeritus at Bryn Mawr College’s Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. Bailey worked in mental health care before joining the faculty and administration at Bryn Mawr College. In her 25 years, Bailey she has generously served many on local and national oganizational boards and advisory committees seeking her expertise in leadership developement of women and community transformation. Bailey is also the Director of the Social Justice Initiative at Bryn Mawr. Education: AB in Psychology in Secondary Education from Lafayette College, Master’s of...

#12974

Matthew Kosnik

#190714

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Carlotta Guiducci

#184490

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Carlotta Guiducci is an Italian bio-engineer. Her research is invested in bio-molecular analysis based on lab-on-a-chip devices. She is an Associate Professor at EPFL and head of the Laboratory of Life Sciences Electronics located at EPFL's Lausanne campus.

#12976

Lisa Boden

#188566

Overall Influence

Lisa Boden is a professional in the field of veterinary public health and population medicine. She holds a Ph.D. in veterinary epidemiology, complemented by a Masters of Laws degree in medical law and ethics. Recognized as a veterinary specialist by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in the United Kingdom, she also holds European certification.

#12977

Kristin Congdon

#179339

Overall Influence

Kristin G. Congdon is an American artist, writer and a Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Central Florida. In her work she focuses on folk art, art education, art history, and feminism. She is the founding director of the Cultural Heritage Alliance at the University of Central Florida , which supports research into folk arts and folk arts education. She has written or contributed to over a dozen books on folk arts and is on the Editorial Board of the journal Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal. She has toured with her art in Florida.

#12978

Lisa Gralnick

#119545

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Lisa Gralnick is an American contemporary metalsmith, studio jeweler and academic. She works in the field of craft and art jewelry. Gralnick says: "I have chosen to make jewelry, which is traditionally considered 'craft', and I do enjoy the processes and techniques that allow me to execute my work without technical faults. But 'craft' is only a means to an end for me, as it is for many artists. My desire to push the limits of jewelry and expand on them, to comment on its traditions and associations, is more the concern of any artist."

#12979

Julie Ault

#35674

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Julie Ault is an American artist, curator, and editor who was a cofounder of Group Material, a New York-based artists' collaborative that has produced over fifty exhibitions and public projects exploring relationships between politics and aesthetics. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellows Program grant, commonly referred to as a MacArthur Genius Grant, in 2018 in recognition for her achievements "redefining the role of the artwork and the artist by melding artistic, curatorial, archival, editorial, and activist practices into a new form of cultural production."

#12980

Ronald Tress

#62322

Overall Influence

1915 - 2006 (91 years)

Ronald C Tress, CBE, was a British economist. He studied Economics 1933–36 at University College, Southampton taking a University of London external degree. Beginning in 1941 he was an economic adviser to the British War Cabinet for four years. He became a Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bristol in 1951. He was Master of Birkbeck College, University of London from 1968 to 1977. He was elected a Fellow of Birkbeck College, University of London in 1977. He became director of the Leverhulme Trust of 1978.

#12981

Justin Brande

#150429

Overall Influence

1917 - 2000 (83 years)

Justin Herbert Brande was a conservationist and a farmer. Brande was the son of noted writer Dorothea Brande. He led conservation efforts in Vermont to promote organic agriculture and protect natural resources that spanned several decades.

#12982

Tim Hunter

#99992

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Tim Hunter is an American television and film director. Career Since the late 1980s he has mostly worked on television, directing episodes for dozens of televisions series including Breaking Bad, Carnivàle, Chicago Hope, Crossing Jordan, Deadwood, Falcon Crest, Homicide: Life on the Street, House, Law & Order, Lie to Me, Mad Men, Twin Peaks, Glee, Revenge, Pretty Little Liars and American Horror Story. During the early to mid-1980s, Hunter directed several feature films, including 1986's River's Edge, which won that year's award for Best Picture at the Independent Spirit Awards.

#12983

Charles S. Beightler

#167785

Overall Influence

1924 - 2011 (87 years)

Dr. Charles Sprague Beightler was an American researcher and professor who won the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize in 1967 and was a Fulbright Lecturer in Germany. Background Beightler was born in 1924 in Cincinnati, the son of Donald Sprague Beightler, brother of Maj. Gen. Robert Beightler, and Elizabeth Bainer. The family moved to Chicago where he graduated from the Nicholas Senn High School. From there he enrolled with the United States Army's Specialized Training Program for Pre-Engineering. He served in World War II in France, Germany, and Austria in the 71st Infantry, 44th Division as a R...

#12984

Robert B. Rutherford

#55149

Overall Influence

1931 - 2013 (82 years)

Robert B. Rutherford, MD, was an American vascular surgeon, scientific journal editor, and medical textbook author. He established the definitive textbook in vascular surgery and was a Senior Editor of the Journal of Vascular Surgery.

#12985

Nicholas Nagy-Talavera

#127749

Overall Influence

1929 - 2000 (71 years)

Nicholas M. Nagy-Talavera or Miklós Nagy was a Hungarian-American dissident, historian, writer and professor, Biography He was born to prosperous merchants of Sephardic Jewish descent and spent his childhood in Oradea, Romania. In 1944, when he was 14 years old, Nagy-Talavera was arrested by Hungarian police and handed over to German authorities, who transported him to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he encountered the notorious Josef Mengele. He survived Auschwitz and returned to Budapest in 1945 to find that his parents had also survived the war by hiding with Christian friends.

#12986

Hans Reiser

#187576

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Hans Thomas Reiser is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer. In April 2008, Reiser was convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife, Nina Reiser, who disappeared in September 2006. He subsequently pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder, as part of a settlement agreement that included disclosing the location of Nina Reiser's body, which he revealed to be in a shallow grave near the couple's home.

#12987

Daniel Halberstam

#40819

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Daniel H. Halberstam is a legal scholar focusing on comparative constitutional law, transnational law and European law. Halberstam is the Eric Stein Collegiate Professor of Law and Director of the European Legal Studies Program at the University of Michigan Law School. He is also professor at College of Europe.

#12988

Edwin Cranston

#46255

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Edwin Augustus Cranston was a Professor of Japanese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Harvard University. His primary research interest was the classical literature of Japan, especially traditional poetic forms.

#12989

Alex Bag

#106624

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Alex Bag is an artist working primarily in video. She currently resides in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Her work is largely influenced by television, which she finds to be "the most awful thing. But I can't stop watching it..." She has performed at The Knitting Factory and lectured at Yale University, Parsons School of Design, Cal Arts, and The Getty Research Institute.

#12990

Alexander Titus

#185173

Overall Influence

Alexander J. Titus is an American biotechnology professional, strategist, and entrepreneur notable for significant contributions to biotechnology, artificial intelligence , and national security. His expertise in integrating AI with biotechnology and security has distinguished his career in both the public and private sectors.

#12991

Edward Yang

#190769

Overall Influence

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Anthony Musson

#129874

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Anthony Musson is professor of legal history at the University of Exeter. Musson is a barrister of the Middle Temple and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries of London.

#12993

Percy Martin

#89916

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Percy Martin is an American artist and teacher. Martin has lived in Washington, D.C. since 1947 and has taught several generations of Washington area art students, including the University of Maryland, the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design and finally at the Sidwell Friends School, where he taught from 1979 to 2009.

#12994

Wilma Cecelia Peebles-wilkins

#190786

Overall Influence

Wilma Peebles-Wilkins was Dean, Boston University School of Social Work for several years and a former scholar at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University. She is currently Dean Emeritus at Boston University. According to the NASW Foundation Dr. Peebles-Wilkins has more than 40 years of experience as a social work practitioner, administrator, and educator. She has worked both in the public and private sectors as well as in an acute care hospital in pediatrics. Alma Maters: Doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MSSA is from Case Western Reserve University, and BA in Sociology and a minor in Social Work from North Carolina State University.

#12995

Abedelnasser Abulrob

#184411

Overall Influence

Abedelnasser Abulrob is a British-born medical researcher specialising in the areas of cancer therapeutics and personalized medicine. He held several senior level positions at the National Research Council of Canada, and is currently an adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Medicine-University of Ottawa in Canada.

#12996

Behnam Afas

#87188

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Behnam Afas is an Iraqi-New Zealander author and researcher. His studies are mostly in the role of the Christian scholars and missionaries, their effect on the renaissance of Iraq during the 19th century and the early 20th century. His work is very well respected from all ethnic and religious groups of Iraq.

#12997

Albert Irvin

#72014

Overall Influence

1922 - 2015 (93 years)

Albert Henry Thomas Irvin was an English expressionist abstract artist. Life and career Irvin was born in London on 21 August 1922. He was evacuated from there during World War II, to study at the Northampton School of Art between 1940 and 1941, before being conscripted into the Royal Air Force as a navigator. When the war was over, he resumed his course at Goldsmiths College from 1946 to 1950, where he would later go on to teach between 1962 and 1983 where he met and became good friends with Basil Beattie, Harry Thubron amongst others. He was elected to The London Group in 1955. He worked i...

#12998

Maria Goranova

#175897

Overall Influence

Maria Goranova is professor of management at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. She conducts research on shareholder empowerment and activism, corporate governance, and corporate strategy. She serves as editor of Corporate Governance: An International Review, and on the editorial board of Journal of Management, and is a member of the Academy of Management, International Association for Business and Society, and Strategic Management Society. Her research has been published in a number of leading journals including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Sc...

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Harold Eugene Briggs

#190800

Overall Influence

Dr. Harold E. Briggs is the Pauline M. Berger Professor in Family and Child Welfare in the School of Social Work at University of Georgia. Briggs has worked extensively on mental health, substance abuse treatment, child welfare systems, and youth sexual health seeking to find ways to improve the well-being of children, adolescence, and families. Briggs is a leader in the development of psychological measures of African American well-being and has led psychometric studies of homophobia and fear of AIDS, as well as research concerning the perception of the African American experience and engaging African Americans in mental health services.

#13000

Timothy Barrett

#41586

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Timothy D. Barrett is an American papermaker, and director of the Center for the Book, at the University of Iowa, from 1996 to 2002. He remains on the staff of the Center for the Book, and in 2009 received a MacArthur Foundation grant.

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