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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#13701

Ted O'Neill

#188530

Overall Influence

Theodore A. "Ted" O'Neill was the Dean of Admissions at the University of Chicago and a prominent figure in the college admissions community, and is now as a full-time teacher, researcher and writer in the university's Humanities department. O'Neill, nicknamed "the Dean of Love", was known for his humorous annual welcome addresses, eccentric application essay questions, and general geniality; as such, he serves unofficially in the role of "campus legend".

#13702

Jerome R. Cox Jr.

#191570

Overall Influence

1925 - 2023 (98 years)

Jerome Rockhold Cox Jr. was an American computer pioneer, scientist, and entrepreneur. Cox contributed significantly to the areas of biomedical computing, multimedia communications, and computer networking. Cox was the founding chairman of the Department of Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis and senior professor emeritus of Computer Science at Washington University , as well as Founder and President of Blendics, Inc., and Q-Net Security Inc. . In 1998, Cox collaborated with colleagues Jonathan S. Turner and Guru Parulkar in founding Growth Networks .

#13703

Richard J. Goodwin

#115617

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Richard Goodwin is an Australian artist, architect and professor of Fine Arts and Design at the University of New South Wales School of Art and Design. Work Goodwin is the director of Richard Goodwin Pty Ltd, a Sydney-based practice that has evolved from performance art to sculpture, installations, parasitic architecture and freeway infrastructure. Goodwin's artwork is held in major collections including the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney and regional galleries across Australia. He regularly consults on major infrastructure projects such as bridges and freeway walls.

#13704

Andrey Milekhin

Andrey Milekhin

#32441

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Andrey Vladimirovich Milekhin is a Soviet and Russian scientist, who is engaged in practical psychology and sociology in the field of marketing, media and social-economic research. At present, he is the President of Romir research holding, VP of Gallup International, Doctor of Science, Candidate of Psychological Sciences, honorary member of Guild of Marketers Professor of School of Contemporary Social Sciences at Moscow State University, Member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and Eurasian Academy of TV & Radio.

#13705

Jill Gibbon

#45011

Overall Influence

Jill Gibbon is a British artist, best known for sketching people in the arms trade while working undercover at arms fairs. She is a senior lecturer in graphic arts at Leeds Beckett University. Gibbon earned a bachelor's degree from Leeds Polytechnic , a master's from Keele University, and a PhD from Wimbledon School of Art.

#13706

José Luis Gómez Martínez

#43741

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

José Luis Gómez Martínez is a professor emeritus of Spanish at the University of Georgia. Essayist and literary critic, his research into the theory of the essay, along with his work on Hispanic thought and Latin American fiction helped push literary boundaries and open up new lines of thinking within and outside of academia. During his professional career José Luis Gómez won several awards for his scholarly contributions, including the prestigious Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship , the Albert Christ-Janer Award , named Professor of the Year by the AATSP-GA , the 1989 Sturgis Leavitt Prize.

#13707

Dorthy Lee Pennington

#192226

Overall Influence

Dr Dorthy Pennington Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Kansas. Dorthy Pennington’s teaching and research areas are intercultural and interracial communication/critical race theory, cultural rhetoric, African American communication and culture, the discourse of terror and trauma, and African American regional church history. Dorthy Pennington earned a B.A. from Rust College, with high honors in 1968 with a major in English and a minor in French. She earned her M.A. at the University of Kansas in 1970 in Speech Communication and Human Relations; her Ph. D. from the University of Kansas in 1974 studying Speech Communication and Human Relations.

#13708

Citlalli Gaona-Tiburcio

#190534

Overall Influence

Citlalli Gaona-Tiburcio is a Mexican materials scientist whose research interests include the treatment of metal-reinforced concrete for resistance to corrosion, and the development of composite materials for extreme environments including high-temperature and aerospace applications. She is a professor and researcher in the Center for Research and Innovation in Aeronautical Engineering, in the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León .

#13709

Amy McCullough

#192228

Overall Influence

#13710

Ameen Albert Rihani

Ameen Albert Rihani

#129220

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Ameen Albert Rihani is a university professor, scholar and administrator. He is a professor of Arab American literature at Notre Dame University - Louiaze. He was the Vice President of Academic Affairs since 1997. In 2013 he became advisor to the President of NDU and the Secretary General of the Institute of Lebanese Thought.

#13711

Rajagopal

#95467

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Rajagopal is a professor and researcher in business and marketing with the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education . He has written over forty books in his field and his work has been recognized by Level III membership in Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores among other awards.

#13712

Hou Jingjing

#168556

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Hou Jingjing was the first Chinese woman in a wheelchair to earn a doctorate. She is currently employed at Nanjing Normal University. Life and career Jingjing was born in 1975 in the Dangtu County of the Anhui Province. She was reportedly gifted from a young age. At 11 years old, she was diagnosed as paralyzed from the waist down and had to drop out of school. After dropping out, Jingjing was home-schooled. She required frequent treatment, which often resulted in her missing classes and having to catch up on her own.

#13713

Joseph DeLappe

#130983

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Joseph DeLappe is a UK-based American artist and academic best known for his art intervention pieces that explore contemporary issues in politics through new media installations and interactive gaming performances.

#13714

Svitlana Oleksiivna Shvachko

Svitlana Oleksiivna Shvachko

#75025

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Professor Svitlana Oleksiivna Shvachko is an academician of the Academy of Higher school of Ukraine and a Professor of the Department of Germanic Philology in Sumy State University. Life Professor Shvachko was born on 25 November 1935 in Kiev, in the family of a serviceman. Graduated from Horlivka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages in 1956 and worked as a teacher of English at schools in Horlivka , and as a lecturer of English an associate professor of the Department of English Philology at Horlivka Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages .

#13715

Alan Frampton

#176593

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Sir Alan Russell Frampton is a New Zealand agricultural economist. He completed a master's degree at Massey University in 1964. He had a career as an academic at Massey University from 1968 to 1983, before working as a consultant. He was a member of the New Zealand Dairy Board from 1973 to 1993, and was chair of the Tatua Dairy Company from 1990 to 2003.

#13716

Jesse Owen Harasta

#192239

Overall Influence

#13717

Jung Yeondoo

#189061

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Jung Yeondoo is a South Korean visual artist who works primarily with photography, videography, and sculpture. He has a studio located in Seoul. He was the youngest recipient of the "Artist of the Year" award by the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea in 2007. He has been selected as the artist featured in the MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2023. He has shown work in numerous museums and biennials worldwide like the 51st Venice Biennial and the Liverpool Biennial in 2008. His work is featured in public and private art collections throughout the world such as the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmi...

#13718

Pelagia Gesiou-Faltsi

#179910

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Pelayia Yessiou-Faltsi is a leading scholar in the field of civil procedure in Greece. She is emeritus professor at the Law Faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has been teaching there for more than forty-five years and served as the Faculty’s Dean from 1994–1997. She teaches at the Greek National School of Judiciary and has been a visiting professor at Tulane University.

#13719

Derek Hyatt

#102548

Overall Influence

1931 - 2015 (84 years)

Derek James Hyatt was a British landscape painter, known best for his abstract depictions of Yorkshire moors. Born in Ilkley, West Yorkshire to Albert and Dorothy Hyatt, young Derek attended grammar school in his hometown. He then went to Leeds College of Art from 1948 to 1952. Hyatt spent his national service with the Royal Air Force and attended Norwich University of the Arts part-time. The Royal College of Art offered him a scholarship in 1957, and Hyatt became the editor of the college's journal Ark.

#13720

Ricardo Ben-Oliel

Ricardo Ben-Oliel

#189126

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Ricardo Ben-Oliel is a Full Professor of law at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law. He was born in 1944 in Portugal, in the former colony Cape Verde, where his German descent mother found refuge during the Nazi period. He is a descendant of the rabbinical, aristocratic family Ben-Atar from his father's side.

#13721

Marlene Norst

#98893

Overall Influence

1930 - 2010 (80 years)

Marlene Johanna Norst was an Australian linguist, pedagogue and philanthropist of Austrian heritage. Her main areas of work were German language and literature studies, language pedagogy, English as a second language, socio-linguistics and children’s literature.

#13722

Lisa Whitfield-Harris

#192244

Overall Influence

Lisa Whitfield-Harris is an associate professor and the Program Director of Community Systems Administration at Thomas Jefferson University. Her research and clinical interests include diversity in nursing and healthcare, health disparities, transcultural nursing, minority student experiences, workplace culture, and social justice. Whitfield-Harris has published works in a number of journals, including the Journal of Transcultural Nursing, Association of Black Nursing Faculty, Journal of Nursing Education, and Ethnicity & Health.

#13723

Peter J. Stafford

#192249

Overall Influence

#13724

Joseph B McGee Turner

#192250

Overall Influence

#13725

Jessica N. Essary

#192253

Overall Influence

#13726

Mabel Deutrich

#182435

Overall Influence

1915 - 1998 (83 years)

Mabel Evelyn Deutrich was an American Archivist. In 1975 she was the highest ranking woman in the history of the National Archives. She had a 29-year career as a government archivist and served as Assistant Archivist for the Office of the National Archive from 1975 to 1979. She was a specialist on the American Revolutionary War, who inventoried War Department collections of Revolutionary War records. She was particularly active in assessing the role and status of men and women archivists. She received the 1976 NARS Meritorious Service Award for “advancing the status of women in the archiva...

#13727

Katie Davis-Anderson

#192259

Overall Influence

#13728

Ursula Neugebauer

#99599

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Ursula Neugebauer is a German artist. Biography Ursula Neugebauer studied visual art at the Academy of Fine Arts Münster, where she was named a master student by Timm Ulrichs, as well as literature at the University of Münster. She taught high school for a while and subsequently worked as an art therapist at the Universitätklinikum Münster. From 1999 to 2002 she lectured in the Department of Architecture at the Technische Universität Berlin. She has been professor of visual art at the Berlin University of the Arts. since 2003.

#13729

James Weirick

#95854

Overall Influence

Professor James Weirick is an Australian academic who was the Director of the Master of Urban Development and Design program at the University of New South Wales , Sydney, Australia. This program was last run in 2019.

#13730

Glenda Green

#118430

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Glenda Allen Green is an American artist, academic and author. She has accomplishments in art, art history, science, philosophy, spirituality, and philosophy. Life Born in 1945, Glenda is a native of Weatherford, Texas. She married art historian and critic Victor Koshkin-Youritzin on August 30, 1970 and together they moved to Norman, Oklahoma in 1972. She was remarried to Brian Bibb in 1980.

#13731

Tan Teck Meng

#87863

Overall Influence

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Tan. Tan Teck Meng was a professor of Accounting from Singapore Management University , member of the board of directors of four public companies in Singapore, serving as chairman of the audit committees of two of the companies, and honorary professor of Finance and Economics of Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, China.

#13732

Jacqueline Fahey

Jacqueline Fahey

#146549

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Jacqueline Mary Fahey is a New Zealand painter and writer. Biography Of Irish Catholic ancestry, Fahey was born in Timaru in 1929. Fahey had strong female role models in her life: her mother was a pianist who attended the Melbourne Conservatoire of Music and worked as a professional pianist for 8 years before returning to New Zealand, and her grandmother taught at a Dominican Convent and was "very good at languages and loved history". "These two women were my role models, really," Fahey has commented. "They gave me the idea that women were supposed to excel even if it was primarily in the ar...

#13733

Violeta Moreno Megías

#192266

Overall Influence

1988 - Present (38 years)

#13734

John Cater

#106549

Overall Influence

1953 - 2009 (56 years)

John Charles Cater is the Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University. Appointed in 1993, he is the longest-serving head of a United Kingdom higher education institution and is the Chair of the Universities UK Teacher Education Advisory Group. Cater was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to Higher Education and Teacher Training.

#13735

Ronald Jones

#80614

Overall Influence

1952 - 2019 (67 years)

Ronald Jones was an American artist, critic and educator who gained prominence in New York City during the mid-1980s. In the magazine Contemporary, Brandon Labelle wrote: "Working as an artist, writer, curator, professor, lecturer and critic over the last 20 years, Jones is a self-styled Conceptualist, spanning the worlds of academia and art, opera and garden design, and acting as paternal spearhead of contemporary critical practice. Explorative and provocative, Jones creates work that demands attention that is both perceptual and political." Labelle positions Jones along the leading edge of ...

#13736

Berent Schwineköper

#84092

Overall Influence

1912 - 1993 (81 years)

Berent Schwineköper was a German archivist and historian. Born in Magdeburg, Prussian Saxony, Schwineköper was the son of an apothecary. At the universities of Göttingen, Vienna, and Freiburg, Schwineköper studied history, German studies, art history, and historical auxiliary sciences. His main advisors were Alfons Dopsch, Heinrich von Srbik, Hermann Heimpel, and especially Percy Ernst Schramm, from whom Schwineköper received his doctorate in 1937 with the work Der Handschuh im Recht, Ämterwesen, Brauchtum und Volksglauben.

#13737

Stewart Russell

#101938

Overall Influence

1955 - 2011 (56 years)

Stewart Russell was a senior lecturer and interdisciplinary researcher in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Innovative in his approach, Stewart believed that to achieve sustainable change it was necessary to address the interplay between science and technology and social and institutional factors. He worked with a diverse communities including trade unions, government and public institutions.

#13738

Duke Riley

#69412

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Duke Riley is an American artist. Riley earned a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a MFA in Sculpture from the Pratt Institute. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is noted for a body of work incorporating the seafarer's craft with nautical history, as well as the host of a series of illegal clambakes on the Brooklyn waterfront for the New York artistic community. Riley told the Village Voice that he has "always been interested in the space where water meets land in the urban landscape."

#13739

Farkhonda Hassan

#41072

Overall Influence

1930 - 2020 (90 years)

Farkhonda Hassan was a professor of Geology at the American University in Cairo and was chair of the Commission on Human Development and Local Administration of the Shura Council. Education Hassan had a BSc in Chemistry and Geology from Cairo University, an MSc in Solid State Science from the American University in Cairo, and a PhD in Geology from the University of Pittsburgh . She also held a Diploma in Psychology and Education from Ain Shams University in Egypt.

#13740

Mhlobo Jadezweni

#122927

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Mhlobo Wabantwana Jadezweni is a South African academic and author. He has degrees from the University of Fort Hare and Stellenbosch University. He has been attached to the Department of African Languages at Stellenbosch University since 1983, where he teaches Xhosa literature and language, and studies isiXhosa poetry. He has served on various Xhosa language boards since 1984 and is chairperson of the isiXhosa Lexicography Unit at Fort Hare.

#13741

Terri Young

#62714

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Terri L. Young is an American pediatric ophthalmologist. Early life and education Young was born in Sacramento, California and is African-American. She attended Bowdoin College for her undergraduate education and graduated with bachelor's degrees in biochemistry and sociology in 1981. She then attended Harvard Medical School and graduated in 1986. She remained in Boston for her pediatrics residency, working at Boston Children's Hospital, then moved to the University of Illinois at Chicago for her ophthalmology residency. Young then trained in pediatric ophthalmology at the Children's Hospital...

#13742

Antoine Haddad

#55145

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Antoine Haddad is an academic, consultant, and social and political activist. After 40 years of experience in university teaching and scientific research, during which he held several positions at the Lebanese University and elsewhere, Dr. Antoine Haddad has been appointed since July 2019 as vice president of the newly established Saint George University of Beirut, which aspires to create a progressive higher learning model centered on medical sciences and health care, and build on the century-long experience of Saint George Hospital University Medical Center.

#13743

Ng Chin-Keong

#176761

Overall Influence

Ng Chin-Keong was Professor of Chinese History at the National University of Singapore until his retirement in 2006. He was also the Director of the Chinese Heritage Centre between 2004 and 2006. He is a Singapore citizen by birth and obtained his B.A. in history from the Nanyang University. After working as a teacher for several years, he completed his M.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and his Ph.D. in Chinese history at the Australian National University where he was a student of Wang Gungwu.

#13744

Thomas P. Riccio

#153173

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Thomas P. Riccio is an American multimedia artist and academic. He received his BA from Cleveland State University in English Literature in 1978, his MFA from Boston University in 1982, and studied in the PhD program in Performance Studies at New York University from 1983 to 1984. Riccio has directed over one hundred plays at American regional theatres, off-off and off Broadway and has worked extensively in the area of indigenous and ritual performance conducting research and/or creating performances in: South Africa, Zambia, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Europe, Russia, Siberia, Korea, India, Nepal, China, and Alaska.

#13745

Jack Allen

#181317

Overall Influence

1907 - 1995 (88 years)

Robert John Lea Allen was an English film, theatre and television actor. Career He made his stage debut in 1931 at the Liverpool Playhouse, appearing in The Swan and had a long theatrical career which lasted until 1980, when he appeared as Old Siward at the Old Vic in a production of Macbeth.

#13746

Horst Antes

#76075

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Horst Antes is a German artist and sculptor. After his Abitur, he studied from 1957 to 1959 under the important woodcutter HAP Grieshaber at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe. In 1959, the artist's work was honoured with two prizes, art prize of the city of Hanover and the Pankofer prize on the occasion of the German Youth Art prize.

#13747

Gregory J Lewis

#192273

Overall Influence

#13748

Charles Cadwell

#72812

Overall Influence

Charles Cadwell, was a professor at the Case School of Applied Science , in Cleveland, Ohio. He further developed the exothermic welding system previously invented by Hans Goldschmidt in 1895; in 1938-1939 Cadwell developed a non-ferrous exothermic welding process using copper, today widely known as "Cadweld". The original use of the process was to weld signal bonds to railroad tracks, which previously had to be done with "pins" knocked into holes drilled into the web of the rail. Later developments allows the rails themselves to be welded together.

#13749

Wonyong Sung

#163378

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Wonyong Sung is a South Korean professor of electronic and information engineering at Seoul National University . Sung received his B.S. in engineering from SNU in 1978 and his M.S. in the same field from KAIST in 1980. After working for GoldStar for three years, he went on to the University of California, Santa Barbara for his Ph.D., which he completed in 1987. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for "contributions to real-time signal processing systems".

#13750

Bill Ryan

#190853

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

William James Ryan is a professor of Social Work at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an international expert in the field of sexuality, sexual education, homophobia, health and gay men's health. He has conducted research in all these areas, published scientific articles, chapters and edited books. He has spoken at conferences internationally and consulted and trained with many international organizations. He is one of the leaders in the international gay men's health movement and has been a driving force behind the transformation of Action Séro-Zéro in Montréal into a full-fledged gay men's health organization.

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