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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#13451

Amy Beegle

#191917

Overall Influence

#13452

Lee Young-hoon

#37401

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Lee Young-hoon , Lee Yong-hoon, Rhee Yong-hoon, or Yi Yŏnghun is a former professor of economics at Seoul National University and the president of the Naksungdae Institute of Economic Research . He is a member and co-representative of the Textbook Forum of the New Right Party. He is known for undertaking new positivistic research on the Economy of Joseon.

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Manu.

#191924

Overall Influence

#13454

Alvin P. Kennedy

#191925

Overall Influence

Chemist and Morgan State University chemistry professor Alvin P. Kennedy was born on June 1, 1955, to Helen Augusta Kennedy and Amos Paul Kennedy. He grew up in Grambling, Louisiana, where he attended Grambling Laboratory School and later Grambling High School. Kennedy attended Grambling State University during which time he participated in several research internships, graduating with his B.S. degree in chemistry in 1978. He pursued graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley with funding from an AT&T Bell Labs fellowship. His graduate research focused on the development of chemical lasers and the kinetics associated with spontaneous reactions.

#13455

Allan L. Edmunds

#188736

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Allan L. Edmunds is an American artist. Biography Edmunds attended the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, receiving a master's degree in Fine Art. In 1972 Edmunds founded the Brandywine Graphic Workshop in Philadelphia.

#13456

Jean LaMarr

#99871

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Jean LaMarr is a Northern Paiute/Achomawi artist and activist from California. She creates murals, prints, dioramas, sculptures, and interactive installations. She is an enrolled citizen of the Susanville Indian Rancheria.

#13457

George Willis Diemer

#191928

Overall Influence

#13458

Harry C. J. Phillips

#143215

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Harry Phillips, , , is a leading political and civic education advocate and political commentator in Western Australia. He has extensive teaching and lecturing experience in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in political and civic education and has published widely in these fields, as well as sport, particularly tennis. Phillips's commitment to civics stems from his youth at Hyden Primary School, and his Alma Mater, Hale School.

#13459

Erouscilla Joseph

#180850

Overall Influence

Erouscilla "Pat" Joseph is a volcanologist, and Director of the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre, which oversees seismic and volcanic monitoring of the English-speaking Eastern Caribbean. She led the volcanological management of the 2021 La Soufriere eruptions on Saint Vincent, for which the Seismic Research Centre received global accolades.

#13460

Ian Mcewen

#191937

Overall Influence

#13461

Vartika Mathur

#164328

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Dr Vartika Mathur is an Indian scientist who is a Professor in the Department of Zoology, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. She was the only Indian to receive the NFP fellowship in 2008 from Nuffic in partnership with Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which enabled her to pursue PhD at Wageningen University and Research Centre. She finally received her PhD in 2012 for her studies on plant-animal-microbe interactions. Her research led to the characterization of temporal dynamics of different insect-induced plant responses.

#13462

Richard Orraca-Tetteh

#174029

Overall Influence

1932 - 2002 (70 years)

Richard Orraca-Tetteh was a Ghanaian professor of food science and nutrition at the University of Ghana, Legon. He was a pioneer for the study of nutrition and food science as an academic discipline in Africa.

#13463

Ann Rockley

#102407

Overall Influence

Ann Rockley is a content manager. She is the founder and President of The Rockley Group, based in the greater Toronto Area. She regularly presents papers and workshops on subjects involving the efficient creation, management and delivery of content for organizations in North America and Europe. She was the lead analyst for The XML & Component Content Management Report on Content Management Systems Watch.

#13464

Jeffrey Steele

#49770

Overall Influence

1931 - 2021 (90 years)

Jeffrey Steele was an abstract painter. In Paris he encountered the work of artists working in the mode of geometric abstraction, such as Victor Vasarely , Max Bill and Josef Albers , and adopted a lifelong abstract approach. For eight years he worked purely in black and white and was identified with the Op-art movement. He incorporated other colours into his work in the 1970s.

#13465

Mogens Møller

#112757

Overall Influence

1934 - 2021 (87 years)

Mogens Møller was a Danish Minimalist sculptor and painter who has designed a number of large public works and created the portrait of Queen Margrethe on Danish coins. Biography Born in Copenhagen, Møller studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Gottfred Eickhoff and Richard Mortensen . In the 1960s, together with Hein Heinsen and Stig Brøgger, he was one of those who brought American trends in Minimalism to Denmark. Working towards an improved perception of space, they produced a number of rectilinear works including Fire kvadradiske rammer and Fredens Port .

#13466

Frances V. Harbour

#116807

Overall Influence

1953 - 2013 (60 years)

Frances Vryling Harbour was an associate professor of government at George Mason University, in the United States. She died on December 19, 2013. Information She is a founding member and past president of the International Ethics Section of the International Studies Association and a former John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur fellow in international peace and security studies. She has written on the ethics of weapons of mass destruction and just war philosophy. Her book Thinking About International Ethics: Moral Theory and Cases from American Foreign Policy looks at the Realism-Idealism debat...

#13467

Jiang Jingshan

#67088

Overall Influence

1936 - 2021 (85 years)

Jiang Jingshan was a Chinese aerospace engineer with expertise in microwave remote sensing and spaceflight engineering. He had been the director of the Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, deputy chief designer of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program and an aerospace expert of China's 863 Program.

#13468

Gina Osterloh

#188203

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Gina Osterloh is a Filipino American conceptual artist who uses photography to question and investigate notions of self and identity. Best known for photographs that feature partly concealed bodies in "meticulously crafted room-sized sets," Osterloh challenges conventions of portraiture and often combines elements of performance, tableau, sculpture, installation, and drawing into photographs.

#13469

Huaguang Zhang

#191811

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Huaguang Zhang is an engineer at Northeastern University China in Shenyang, China. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for his contributions to stability analysis of recurrent neural networks and intelligent control of nonlinear systems.

#13470

Willie Rockward

#124501

Overall Influence

Willie S. Rockward is a physics professor and has served as the chair of the department of physics and engineering physics at Morgan State University since August of 2018. His research interests include Micro/Nano Optics Lithography, Extreme Ultraviolet Interferometry, Metamaterials, Terahertz imaging, Nanostructure Characterization, and Crossed Phase Optics. From 2018 to 2020 he was the president of the National Society of Black Physicists.

#13471

Nathaniel Simmons

#191948

Overall Influence

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Esben Sloth Andersen

#125111

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Esben Sloth Andersen is an emeritus professor in economics at Aalborg University. Esben Sloth Andersen's research revolves around evolutionary economics with emphasis on innovation and its role in economic growth. Furthermore, he has worked with computer simulation and history of theory. Within this field, Esben Sloth Andersen was awarded the “Gunnar Myrdal prize” in 2010 by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.

#13473

Yukio Takefuta

#102511

Overall Influence

1935 - 2014 (79 years)

Yukio Takefuta was a Japanese English education scholar. Professor Emeritus of Chiba University, he devoted his life to the study and research of English phonetics, English education, and systems engineering, thus advancing English education in Japanese institutions of higher education. He served as a board member for universities and academic societies. He was awarded the Senior Fourth Rank and the Order of the Sacred Treasures in 2014 for his notable contributions to the scientific approach to learning.

#13474

Shankar Prasad Shrestha

#182713

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Shankar Prasad Shrestha is a Nepalese Professor of Physics at department of Physics, Patan Multiple Campus, Lalitpur, Nepal. He did his Master of Science in 1984 from Tribhuvan University, PhD in 1999 from School of Material Science and Technology, Varanasi, India and postdoc from Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea in July 2001. He is a member of Nepal Physical Society and American Physical Society. He is known as Physics educator and researcher of Material Science; particularly in the field of thin film and Carbon nanotube, in Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.

#13475

Martin B. Hickman

#114903

Overall Influence

1925 - 1991 (66 years)

Martin B. Hickman was the first dean of Brigham Young University's College of Family, Home and Social Sciences. Biography Hickman was born in Monticello, Utah. He graduated from Logan High School and began college at Utah State Agricultural College . He then served in the United States Army as an infantryman during World War II. From 1947 to 1949 he served as a missionary in France for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

#13476

Krasimir Ivanov

#78681

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Krasimir Dimitrov Ivanov is a Bulgarian surgeon and oncologist, professor and rector of the Medical University "Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov" of Varna in the period 2012–2020. In the past, he was the executive director of St. Marina University Hospital of Varna .

#13477

Marsudi Wahyu Kisworo

#191767

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Marsudi Wahyu Kisworo is an Indonesian Professor of Computer Science affiliated with Bina Darma University. On 13 October 2021, he was appointed as Member of the Board of Governors of the National Research and Innovation Agency by Joko Widodo.

#13478

Barbara J. Hager

#191954

Overall Influence

#13479

Ajith Madurapperuma

#191955

Overall Influence

Ajith P. Madurapperuma is a Sri Lankan academic. Former Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology of the University of Moratuwa, he is currently the Deputy Director of the Interactive and Digital Media Institute of the National University of Singapore.

#13480

Martin Hora

#191960

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Martin Hora is a biological anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics at Charles University in Prague. His most well-known research paper is “Stature and body mass estimation from skeletal remains in the European Holocene.”

#13481

Piotr Alberti

#84635

Overall Influence

1913 - 1994 (81 years)

Piotr Filipovich Alberti was a Soviet, Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting. Biography Alberti was born November 25, 1913, in Astrakhan city, Russian Empire, on the Volga River in the family of a railway officer. In 1927 he enrolled in Astrakhan Art School, where he studied with renowned artist and art educator Pavel Vlasov, students who were Boris Kustodiev and Ivan Goryushkin-Sorokopudov. In 1932 Alberti graduated from Astrakhan Art School and left to Leningrad where he entered the preparatory course at the Ru...

#13482

Ahmed Nasri

#61194

Overall Influence

Ahmad H. Nasri is the current President of Fahd bin Sultan University. Professor Nasri was educated at the Lebanese University and the University of East Anglia . He was formerly a Professor at the American University of Beirut.

#13483

Lydia Yu-Jose

#58640

Overall Influence

1944 - 2014 (70 years)

Lydia N. Yu-Jose was a professor of political science and Japanese Studies at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. A graduate of Sophia University, she was best known for her research into the history of Japan–Philippines relations, as well as aiding in the development of Japanese studies in the Philippines as a separate academic discipline.

#13484

Tim Armstrong

#191051

Overall Influence

Dr. Timothy Currie Armstrong is a Scottish Gaelic punk musician, novelist, and academic from Seattle, Washington. Earlier life Armstrong was a member of several punk bands in Brunswick, Maine in the late eighties, including Officer Friendly, while studying for a BA in biology at Bowdoin College; he graduated with honors in 1990. He stated in an interview for Radio nan Gàidheal that he has thirteen tattoos, many of which were from this period of his life, expressing his rebellious punk values and pacifism. After spending some years living in Scotland and meeting other Gaelic-speaking punks such...

#13485

James Loper

#191553

Overall Influence

1931 - 2013 (82 years)

James Leaders Loper was an American television executive who co-founded KCET in 1964 and served as Executive Director of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences from 1983 to 1999. Life and career Loper was born to John Loper and Ellen Leaders in Phoenix, Arizona, on September 4, 1931. He obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism from Arizona State University in 1953, where he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. He earned his master's degree from the University of Denver in 1957. He moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1959 to begin his doctoral studies at the University of Southern California , which he finished in 1967.

#13486

Kathryn Starkey

#191966

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Kathryn Starkey is Professor of German Studies and, By Courtesy, English, History, and Comparative Literature, at Stanford University. She is author of several books and articles on medieval German philology and visual culture.

#13487

Hugh Arthur

#185251

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Hugh Anthony Victor Arthur, OBE was High Commissioner of Barbados in London from 2008 until 2013. Arthur was educated at Trent University and the University of Surrey. Arthur spent many years with the Barbados Tourist Board. He was also a lecturer in Tourism at the University of the West Indies.

#13488

Michael Goodfellow

#70011

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Michael Goodfellow OBE is a British professor in microbial systematics, specialising in Actinomycetota taxonomy. He earlier served as head of the School of Biology in University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is also the chair of the Bergey's Manual Trust.

#13489

Rosemary Sage

#78086

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Rosemary Sage is a British professor of education with a focus on communication and special educational needs. She leads the programme for the practitioner doctorate at the University of Buckingham.

#13490

Brent R Westbrook

#191968

Overall Influence

#13491

Zafer İlken

#37349

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Prof. Dr. Zafer İlken is a Turkish educator, university administrator and the author/co-author of numerous scientific papers, who has been serving as the third rector of the İzmir Institute of Technology, founded in 1992.

#13492

Wilfredo Falcón

#191971

Overall Influence

#13493

Gülsün Sağlamer

#67583

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Gülsün Sağlamer is a Turkish academic, the third female rector in Turkey. Life Sağlamer was born in 1945 in Trabzon. After finishing primary and secondary education in her home city she obtained her MS from the School of Architecture in Istanbul Technical University . She carried out her post-doctoral studies at the Martin Centre, Department of Architecture- University of Cambridge, UK 1975-1976.

#13494

Stephan Lehnstaedt

#88910

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Stephan Lehnstaedt is a German historian of the Holocaust and professor at Touro University Berlin. Lehnstaedt received his doctor title in 2008 from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and in 2016 a habilitation from Technical University Chemnitz. Prior to joining Touro, he has lectured at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, the Humboldt University Berlin, and the London School of Economics.

#13495

Seamus Metress

#78308

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Seamus Metress is a professor of anthropology at the University of Toledo, Ohio. He has been teaching at the university level for over 30 years. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1971. Also, he attended The University of Notre Dame, when it was an all-boys college.Areas of Interest: Race and Ethnicity, Medical Anthropology, Conflict in Northern IrelandResearch: Biocultural Anthropology, Irish Studies and Ethnic ConflictField Research projects in Northeast Ireland and the Great Lakes Region.

#13496

Juan J. Barthelemy

#191977

Overall Influence

Dr. Juan J. Barthelemy is an Assistant Professor at University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work. Barthelemy has nearly 20 years of practice experience working with at-risk African American youth. His research focuses on strategies communities can take to reduce violent crimes. He is also working on research about how schools can engage youth and prevent future criminal behavior. Barthelemy received his BA in Psychology from Southern University at New Orleans, master’s in Mental Health Adminsitration from University of Northern Iowa, MSW from Washington University in St. Louis, and ...

#13497

Amal Ziv

#163143

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Amal Ziv is an Israeli academic and researcher. Their research areas are pornography and sexual representations, queer culture, queer activism, and queer kinship. Because of their activism and research, Ziv is considered a prominent member of the LGBTQ and feminist communities in Israel.

#13498

Wesley Liebeler

#103197

Overall Influence

1931 - 2002 (71 years)

Wesley James "Jim" Liebeler was an American law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and George Mason University, Warren Commission staff member, and director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning and Evaluation.

#13499

Emanuel V. Towfigh

#120292

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Emanuel V. Towfigh holds the Chair in Public Law, Empirical Legal Research and Law & Economics at EBS Law School and is Professor for Law & Economics at the EBS Business School. He served as the Law School’s Dean from 2018 to 2020. Since August 2021 he holds the position of Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Peking University School of Transnational Law.

#13500

Daniel Nour

#189655

Overall Influence

Daniel Nour is an Australian physician. He is best known for founding Street Side Medics - a mobile medical service specifically created for the homeless. Nour was named as the Young Australian of the Year in 2022.

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