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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#13251

Richard DeVore

#112808

Overall Influence

1933 - 2006 (73 years)

Richard E. DeVore, also written as Richard De Vore was an American ceramicist, professor. He was known for stoneware. He was faculty at Cranbrook Academy of Art’s Ceramics Department, from 1966 to 1978.

#13252

Joseph Carvalko Jr.

#190331

Overall Influence

Joseph Carvalko, Jr. is an American technologist, academic, patent lawyer and writer. As an inventor and engineer, Carvalko has been awarded eighteen U.S. patents in various fields, including computer technology, biomedical, fuel purification, and financial systems. He has authored academic books and articles throughout his career. In 2019, he was appointed to chair the Technology and Ethics Working Group, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University.

#13253

Harriet Cornelia Mills

#106594

Overall Influence

1920 - 2016 (96 years)

Harriet Cornelia Mills was a scholar and professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of Michigan from 1966 to 1990. In 1951, she was arrested by the government of the People's Republic of China and held until October, 1955 on charges of spying. On her release she told the western press that she was guilty.

#13254

Kent Bloomer

#31012

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Kent C. Bloomer was an American sculptor, professor and author who is a well known proponent and creator of architectural ornament. He taught classes on ornament at the Yale School of Architecture for over forty years, and many of his public works of ornament have become well known landmarks. He wrote several books and articles on visual perception and architectural ornament, including the principal authorship, with Charles Moore, of “Body, Memory and Architecture,” 1977.

#13255

Meredith Hay

#77210

Overall Influence

Meredith Hay is an American biomedical researcher and Professor in the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute and in the Department of Psychology at University Arizona. Academic background Hay, a Texas native, earned her B.A. in psychology from the University of Colorado, Denver, and her M.S. in neurobiology from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and her Ph.D. in cardiovascular pharmacology from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio. She trained as a postdoctoral fellow in the Cardiovascular Center at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

#13256

Jo Mary Manning

#177869

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Joanna Mary Manning is a New Zealand academic, and a full professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland. Academic career After an undergraduate at University of Auckland, Manning did a Masters at George Washington University and worked as a prosecutor before returning to academia at Auckland, rising to full professor.

#13257

Eddie Chambers

#124709

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Eddie Chambers is a British contemporary art historian, curator, artist and Department of Art and Art History professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Artistic career Chambers was born in Wolverhampton, England, to parents who were immigrants from Jamaica. While still a student at Sunderland Polytechnic, where he was studying for a Fine Art degree, Chambers met Trent Polytechnic student Keith Piper. Alongside Marlene Smith and Donald Rodney, they formed the BLK Art Group, a groundbreaking association of Black British art students. The group's highly politicised work, including Chambers...

#13258

Thomas S. Huang

#191515

Overall Influence

#13259

Adolfo Mexiac

#83064

Overall Influence

1927 - 2019 (92 years)

Adolfo Mexiac was a Mexican graphic artist, known principally for his politically and socially themed work, especially with the Taller de Gráfica Popular and with fellow graphic artist Leopoldo Méndez. He also painted several murals, the most important of which deals with the history of human law at the University of Colima. In 2011, a “national homage” was held for the artist at the Museo de la Estampa in Mexico City.

#13260

Sonja Macfarlane

#185000

Overall Influence

Sonja Lee Macfarlane is a New Zealand education academic and an associate professor at the University of Canterbury. Macfarlane specialises in the development of cultural awareness in the New Zealand education system.

#13261

Joe Jusko

#74914

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Joe Jusko is an American artist known for his realistic, highly detailed painted fantasy, pin-up, and cover illustrations, mainly in the comic book industry. Jusko painted the 1992 Marvel Masterpieces trading cards, the popularity of which has been credited with initiating the painted trading card boom of the 1990s.

#13262

Awino Okech

#182904

Overall Influence

Awino Okech is a Kenyan academic, based at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies , where her "teaching and research interests lies in the nexus between gender, sexuality and nation/state making projects as they occur in conflict and post-conflict societies". Okech has also taught at the African Leadership Centre, based at King's College London, and is a member of the editorial advisory board of Feminist Africa.

#13263

Monica Majoli

#178885

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Monica Majoli is an American artist whose artwork examines the relationship between physicality and consciousness expressed through the documentary sexual image. Her work explores intimacy through sexuality, and some aspects of alternative lifestyles such as BDSM.

#13264

Michel Gervais

#97360

Overall Influence

1944 - 2022 (78 years)

Michel Gervais, was the 22nd rector of Université Laval from 1987 to 1997. Born in Lévis, Quebec, he studied theology and philosophy, and in 1973 obtained a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas , in Rome. He became a full professor at Université Laval, a university administrator and an administrator in Quebec City.

#13265

Cheikh Mbacke

#155583

Overall Influence

Cheikh Seydil Moctar Mbacké is a Senegalese statistician. He is a research fellow in the Center for Research on Applied Economics and Finance at the Université de Thiès in Senegal. He works in international development, with a particular focus on population and health research in Sub-Saharan Africa. Mbacke was elected a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.

#13266

Massouma al-Mubarak

#163486

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Massouma al-Mubarak is Kuwait's first female government minister, sworn in on 20 June 2005. She was educated in the United States and is a professor of political science. Biography Massouma went to the US for higher education in 1971. In 1976 she completed an MA from The University of North Texas. She later earned a doctorate from the University of Denver. Since 1982 she has been teaching political science at the Kuwait University.

#13267

Juan Soto

#191543

Overall Influence

#13268

Edward Parkes

#42292

Overall Influence

1926 - 2019 (93 years)

Sir Edward Walter Parkes DL FREng was Vice-Chancellor of City University London from 1974 to 1978 and of the University of Leeds from 1983 to 1991. Life Parkes was born in 1926. Parkes attended King Edward's School, Birmingham, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a first class degree in mechanical engineering.

#13269

Bhojaraju Gunjal

#191548

Overall Influence

#13270

Kenny J. Whitby

#191551

Overall Influence

Kenny J. Whitby is a professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. His research on electoral, minority, and legislative behavior has appeared in a variety of scholarly journals, including American Politics Research, the British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, and Social Science Quarterly. Alma Maters: Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. Academic Website

#13271

Mikhail Kizilov

#109112

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Mikhail Kizilov . He works on the history of Crimea in the Late Middle Ages and Modern Times and on Jews, Khazars and Karaism in Eastern Europe, especially in Crimea, Poland, Ukraine and Lithuania. Life He studied history at the Simferopol State University, Medieval Studies at the Central European University in Budapest and Jewish and Hebrew Studies at the University of Oxford . From 2007, Kizilov holds a DPhil in modern history from Oxford University with his dissertation The Karaites, a religious and linguistic minority in eastern Galicia 1772-1945. His doctoral advisor was R. J. W. Evans...

#13272

María Magdalena Campos Pons

#172896

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

María Magdalena Campos-Pons is a Cuban-born artist based in Nashville, Tennessee. Campos-Pons works primarily in photography, performance, audiovisual media, and sculpture. She is considered a "key figure" among Cuban artists who found their voice in a post-revolutionary Cuba. Her art deals with themes of Cuban culture, gender and sexuality, multicultural identity as well as interracial family , and religion/spirituality .

#13273

Bill Sutton

#115845

Overall Influence

1917 - 2000 (83 years)

William Alexander Sutton was a New Zealand portrait and landscape artist. History Sutton was born in Sydenham, Christchurch and attended Christchurch Boys High School. He became interested in art at an early age and was first taught in art classes by Ivy Fife and later at night classes with Colin S. Lovell-Smith. In 1934 he began his studies at the Canterbury College School of Art and was awarded his Diploma of Fine Arts in 1937. He was tutored by many well-known Canterbury artists, including Evelyn Page, Archibald Nicoll and Cecil Kelly. In 1941 Sutton was found unfit for overseas servi...

#13274

Ida Kohlmeyer

#84902

Overall Influence

1912 - 1997 (85 years)

Ida Rittenberg Kohlmeyer was an American painter and sculptor who lived and worked in Louisiana. Kohlmeyer took up painting in her 30s and achieved wide recognition for her work in art museums and galleries throughout the United States. Notably, her work is held by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Ms. Kohlmeyer, a member of the Reform Jewish movement, played an active role in the New Orleans Jewish community throughout her life. Touro Synagogue displays much of her artwork in th...

#13275

Parveen Kumar

#21309

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Dame Parveen June Kumar is a British doctor who is currently Professor of Medicine and Education at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. She worked in the NHS for over 40 years as a consultant gastroenterologist and physician at Barts and the London Hospitals and the Homerton University Hospital. She was the President of the British Medical Association in 2006, of the Royal Society of Medicine from 2010 to 2012, of the Medical Women's Federation from 2016 to 2018 and of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund from 2013 to 2020. She was also Vice President of the Royal College of Physicians from 2003 to 2005.

#13276

Uzo Iwobi

#76329

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Uzoamaka Linda Iwobi FLSW is a British-Nigerian solicitor and equalities practitioner. She is the former Specialist Policy Adviser on Equalities to the Welsh Government, an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wales Trinity St David and founder, secretary and former chief executive officer at Race Council Cymru. She is also Vice President of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.

#13277

Jeffrey Schiff

#78555

Overall Influence

Jeffrey Schiff is an artist working in Brooklyn, New York. He currently teaches at Wesleyan University. Selected exhibitions 2003, Wesleyan University, Olin Memorial Library, The Library Project2000, Bose Pacia Modern, NY, Boundlessly Various and Everything Simultaneously1995, South Station, Boston, Destination1983, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Unitled

#13278

Amanda M. Hulse-Kemp

#189284

Overall Influence

Amanda M. Hulse-Kemp is a computational biologist with the United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service. She works in the Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Unit and is stationed on the North Carolina State University campus in Raleigh, North Carolina.

#13279

Roger Reed

#109773

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Roger Charles Reed is a Professor of Engineering Science and Materials at the University of Oxford. He works at Oxford's Begbroke Science Park, and is associated with its Departments of Engineering Science and Materials. He is a Fellow at St. Anne's College, Oxford.

#13280

Martin Schubert

#191569

Overall Influence

Martin Schubert is professor of medieval German at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He is engaged in research into an anonymous Austrian author who translated the Bible into German 200 years before Martin Luther.

#13281

Norbert Leser

#58535

Overall Influence

1933 - 2014 (81 years)

Norbert Leser was an Austrian jurist, political scientist and social philosopher best known for his lifelong affiliation with, and critical work on, the Social Democratic Party of Austria and Austromarxism in particular. He was born in Oberwart and died in Eisenstadt.

#13282

Pamela A Tamez

#191571

Overall Influence

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Lewis Seifert

#121096

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Lewis Carl Seifert is a professor of French Literature at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Seifert holds a DEA from the Université de Paris III and a PhD from the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Michigan .

#13284

Christopher Polge

Christopher Polge

#36341

Overall Influence

1926 - 2006 (80 years)

Ernest John Christopher Polge was an English biologist, most noted for his work in cryopreservation. The son of a Buckinghamshire farmer, he was educated at Bootham School in York, before going to the University of Reading where he studied Agriculture, graduating with an Ordinary degree. He worked briefly as an agricultural economist before joining the Division of Experimental Biology at the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill, London, and later the Animal Research Station at Cambridge, where he worked under Sir John Hammond

#13285

Jean‐baptiste Michel

#191579

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#13286

Cheryl Rene Rodriguez

#191582

Overall Influence

Dr. Cheryl Rodriguez represented a new breed of cultural anthropologists who combined research with community activism. An assistant professor at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, Rodriguez also served as interim director of USF’s Institute on Black Life and president of the Association of Black Anthropologists. Her degrees and education began at Northern Illinois University, BA, communications sciences, 1979, MA, communications sciences, 1981; University of South Florida, PhD, anthropology, 1992. She has worked at Marquardt School District, Glendale Heights, IL, communicative-di...

#13287

Nidaa Badwan

#180988

Overall Influence

1987 - Present (39 years)

Nidaa Badwan is a Palestinian artist who was born in the United Arab Emirates. She moved to Gaza when she was in sixth grade, and spent a year working in Amman after completing her fine arts degree at a Palestinian university.

#13288

Jiří Toman

#90679

Overall Influence

1938 - 2020 (82 years)

Jiří Toman was a Czech-born Swiss jurist and professor. He was an expert in the field of international law. From 1992 to 1998, he directed the Henry-Dunant Institute in Geneva, which he had joined in 1969. From 1998 to 2018, Toman was a professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law.

#13289

Wouter Biesiot

#135535

Overall Influence

1951 - 1998 (47 years)

Wouter Biesiot was an associate professor and the head of the Energy and Materials Group at the Interfacultaire Vakgroep Energie en Milieukunde at the University of Groningen. Biesiot studied technical physics at Delft University of Technology from 1968 to 1975, and a PhD at the University of Groningen in nuclear physics in 1980. He may be best known for his work on response time and respite time. ECCO models were first developed by Malcolm Slesser et al. in Edinburgh in the late 1990s along with Jay Baguant, Anupam Saraph, Wouter Biesiot, Klaas Jan Noorman and Jane King.

#13290

Ian Kennedy

#136941

Overall Influence

1932 - 2022 (90 years)

Ian Kennedy was a British artist who worked initially for D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, then later for Amalgamated Press. Biography Educated at the Clepington Primary School and then at Morgan Academy, both in Dundee, Kennedy was employed after leaving school by D. C. Thomson & Co. He was taken on as a trainee illustrator in their Art Department in 1949. He recalled that his first published work was inking the black squares in the weekly Sunday Post crossword.

#13291

James T. Monroe

#64270

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

James Thomas Monroe, or James T. Monroe, is an American scholar and translator of Arabic. He is emeritus professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, focusing on Classical Arabic Literature and Hispano-Arabic Literature. His doctorate was from Harvard University. Professor Monroe "works in the areas of lyric poetry, the Middle Ages, and East-West relations with particular interest in the importance of the Arab contribution to Spanish civilization."

#13292

Jayashree Ramadas

#117510

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Jayashree Ramadas is an Indian educationist. She was the Centre Director of Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education , a National Centre of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India. In her capacity as a professor she teaches graduate courses related to cognition and science education. She is also a member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and International Committee on Physics Education. Ramadas was appointed Dean, HBCSE, in November, 2008, and in June 2011, was appointed the Centre Director. She is currently Professor at the TIFR Centre for Interdisc...

#13293

Seichi Konzo

#183636

Overall Influence

1905 - 1992 (87 years)

Seichi "Bud" Konzo was a professor of engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1929–1971 and a pioneer in the field of home heating and cooling. He lived in the first air-conditioned house in North America in 1933. His research spanned the decades of the 1920s to the 1990s.

#13294

Keith Walters

#96457

Overall Influence

Keith Walters was the Dean of Science and Mathematics at Valdosta State University. until his arrest for possessing child pornography . He is no longer employed at Valdosta State University. Prior to this, Walters was the Chair of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Northern Kentucky University.

#13295

Bogdan Tutunaru

#191598

Overall Influence

#13296

John McNamara

#154191

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

John McNamara is an American artist who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1971 with a BFA in painting and in 1977 with an MFA. In 1975, he began teaching painting at the Massachusetts College of Art and remained there until 1983. He received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1981. Since 1993, he has taught at University of California, Berkeley. He currently lives in Novato CA with his wife, educator and writer Diane Darrow and sons filmmaker Jeremy McNamara and musician Seamus McNamara.

#13297

Keith Alexander

#70110

Overall Influence

Keith Vivian Alexander is a New Zealand mechanical engineer and inventor. He is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, and the inventor of the springfree trampoline.

#13298

Anna Smith

#182250

Overall Influence

Anna Smith is an English film reporter, former chair of the London Film Critics' Circle, and host of the Girls on Film podcast. She has contributed to the BBC, Sky News, Time Out, the Guardian and The Film Review.

#13299

Bernard Cheese

#111276

Overall Influence

1925 - 2013 (88 years)

Bernard Cheese was an English painter and printmaker, a fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. His works are found in internationally important collections in the UK and US. Early life He was born in Sydenham, London, in 1925. He studied at Beckenham School of Art and, following four years in the army, studied at the Royal College of Art from 1947, in London, where he studied alongside Walter Hoyle and Sheila Robinson, and his teachers included Edward Bawden and Edwin La Dell.

#13300

Ralph Brown

#90298

Overall Influence

1928 - 2013 (85 years)

Ralph Brown was an English sculptor who came to national prominence in the late 1950s with his large-scale bronze Meat Porters, commissioned for Harlow New Town, Essex and is known for his sensual, figurative sculptures.

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