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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#13851

Jean Dollimore

#192394

Overall Influence

Jean Dollimore is an English computer scientist that worked at Queen Mary University of London, notable for being co-author of one of the standard distributed computer systems textbooks, Distributed Systems . This textbook alone has been cited over 4,700 times.

#13852

Jung Han

#192397

Overall Influence

Jung Han from Yale University, New Haven, CT was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for contributions to epitaxial technologies for wide bandgap semiconductor materials and devices.

#13853

Rasool Vatandoust

Rasool Vatandoust

#171175

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Abdolrasool Vatandoust Haghighi was born in Isfahan, Iran, on July 17, 1947. Being originally from Shiraz, he lived in Tehran from his childhood. Vatandoust completed his high school in 1965 and on the same year and after passing the universities entrance examination was admitted to the Faculty of Science, University of Tehran.

#13854

Dylan Sosa

#192402

Overall Influence

#13855

Margaret Boozer

Margaret Boozer

#107380

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Margaret A Boozer is an American ceramist and sculpture artist, best known for her clay and ceramic compositions, or landscapes, that focus on the individuality, history, and geology of the clay used as subject matters.

#13856

Chen Chi-lu

#92572

Overall Influence

1923 - 2014 (91 years)

Chen Chi-lu was a Taiwanese politician, historian and anthropologist. He was the first Minister of the Council for Cultural Affairs, taking office in 1981 and serving until 1988. Education and early career Chen was born on 27 April 1923 in Tainan Prefecture during the Japanese rule of Taiwan. Chen moved with his parents when he was still a child to China, then Japan, where he attended First Senior High School in Tokyo. Chen then returned to China, enrolling at St. John's University in Shanghai. He received his bachelor's degree in political science and economics in 1948. Upon graduation from Shanghai, Chen returned to Taiwan and worked for Public Opinion Daily as an editor.

#13857

Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón

#192406

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (40 years)

Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón is an author born in Puerto Rico in 1986. He has written three novels, Palacio, Dicen que los dormidos, and Los días hábiles. In 2017 he was named one of Bogota Hay Festival's 39 authors under 40.

#13858

Akanimo Odon

#140257

Overall Influence

Dr. Akanimo Odon is an international business and strategy development expert from Nigeria. He specializes in education and training, energy and environment, oil and gas, media, charities and government. He is the African Advisor for Lancaster University and University of London. He lives in England and he is the CEO of Envirofly Consulting Limited, co-founder of Xn Foundation and also the founder of Flexy-Learn and Academia for Green Africa Initiative.

#13859

Mandy Martin

#87868

Overall Influence

1952 - 2021 (69 years)

Mandy Martin was a contemporary Australian painter, printmaker and teacher. She was involved in the development of feminist art in Australia from the mid-1970s and as exhibited widely in Australia and internationally. In recent years she used the art she created as part of the ongoing debate on climate change, an area in which she was "prolifically active". Based in Canberra for many years, she was also a lecturer at the Australian National University School of Art from 1978 to 2003. As well as being a visual artist, Martin was an adjunct professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Soc...

#13860

Anthony Viti

#192412

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Anthony Viti is an American artist who lives and works at Brooklyn, New York. He is a visual artist and an art educator. Viti currently teaches at School of Visual Arts and Parsons. Work Viti's art practice has focused on narratives of body and HIV and resulting sexual subcultures. He uses a variety of media; painting, sculpture, video, and installation that is both confrontational and high-spirited.

#13861

Bořek Šípek

#49492

Overall Influence

1949 - 2016 (67 years)

Bořek Šípek was a Czech architect and designer. Biography Born in Prague, he was renowned for his individual, unusual, colorful, and rich style. He experimented with unexpected and often opulent shapes.

#13862

Takuro Sato

#182621

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

from Waseda University. He received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from Niigata University. He was a member of Research and Development Laboratories, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., in Tokyo, Japan, where he worked on PCM transmission equipment, mobile telephone and standardization of mobile data transmission and CDMA system for international standardization committee.

#13863

Cho Yoon-kyoung

#190023

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Cho Yoon-Kyoung is an interdisciplinary researcher involved in basic science to translational research in microfluidics and nanomedicine. She is a group leader in the Center for Soft and Living Matter at the Institute for Basic Science and a full professor in Biomedical Engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology , Ulsan, Korea. Cho is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

#13864

Satoshi Fujii

#28961

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Satoshi Fujii is a Japanese civil engineer, economist and social critic, who served as a special advisor to the Abe cabinet until his voluntary Retirement. He is Professor of civil engineering at Kyoto University and the editor-in-chief of Hyogensha Criterion, an academic journal in Japan.

#13865

Tony Franks

#174816

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Tony Franks is an English ceramic artist. He was born in Birmingham, and studied ceramics at Wolverhampton College of Art from 1962 until 1966. He was previously Head of Ceramics, and is now an emeritus professor and Research Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art. Until 2007 he was the President of the International Academy of Ceramics. In 2008, he is one of the British artists invited to create work on site for the British pavilion at the FLICAM International Ceramic Art Museum, Shaanxi province, China.

#13866

Estrella V Thomas

#192417

Overall Influence

#13867

Edmund Lewandowski

#84976

Overall Influence

1914 - 1998 (84 years)

Edmund Lewandowski was an American Precisionist artist who was often exhibited in the Downtown Gallery alongside other artists such as Charles Sheeler, Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ralston Crawford, George Ault, and Niles Spencer.

#13868

Joshua T Yuan

#192419

Overall Influence

#13869

Feng Donglai

#175460

Overall Influence

Feng Donglai is a professor of Fudan University, who works on condensed matter physics. Honors 2005, Javed Husain Prize2010, AAA, Robert T. Poe Prize Selected papers Evidence for ubiquitous strong electron–phonon coupling in high-temperature superconductorsPhotoemission Evidence for a Remnant Fermi Surface and a d-Wave-Like Dispersion in Insulating Ca2CuO2Cl2Signature of Superfluid Density in the Single-Particle Excitation Spectrum of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δTemperature-induced momentum-dependent spectral weight transfer in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ

#13870

Hermine Freed

#168160

Overall Influence

1940 - 1998 (58 years)

Hermine Freed , was an American painter, photographer, and video artist. She is noted for being among the first generation of artists to explore video art in the late 1960s. Life and work Freed studied painting at Cornell University and New York University, where she taught starting from the late 1960s. In 1972 she became a professor for video art at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

#13871

Orshi Drozdik

#31724

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Orshi Drozdik is a feminist visual artist based in New York City. Her work consists of drawings, paintings, photographs, etchings, performances, videos, sculptures, installations, academic writings and fiction, that explore connected themes, sometimes over an extended period. Through her work, organized into several topics, she explores themes that undermine the traditional and erotic representation of women: Individual Mythologies, Adventure in Tecnos Dystopium, and Manufacturing the Self. She is influenced by Valéria Dienes, János Zsilka, Susan Sontag, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Luce Irigaray, Walter Benjamin, and Michel Foucault, among others.

#13872

Elena Kovalskaya

#184272

Overall Influence

Elena Kovalskaya is a Russian theatre critic, curator, and teacher. She teaches the history of foreign theatre at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts , and directs a master's program there in social theatre. Until she resigned in protest at the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, she was artistic director at the Meyerhold Theatre and Cultural Center .

#13873

Helen Mirra

#171050

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Hendl Helen Mirra is an American conceptual artist. "[Like Henry David Thoreau, she is a] maximalist in a minimalist robe", with an idiosyncratic practice. She is engaged with ideas common to buddhist and pragmatist philosophies, and since 2008 her art practice has been integrated with walking. She has said of walking: "It is an unskilled activity, and a modest activity, and a free activity, and an always-available activity, and an equipment-free activity, and an active activity." In an essay on Mirra's work, Yukio Lippit described her engagement thus: "Mirra’s practice champions walking as a specific form of thinking that bypasses language.

#13874

Sonya Sklaroff

#114043

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Biography Sonya Sklaroff, born on November 7, 1970, in Philadelphia, is a contemporary American painter renowned for her cityscapes of New York City. Her educational journey began at Friends' Central School and led her to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design , where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts. At RISD, she won the Providence Art Award and was selected for the European Honors Program, studying under Friedrich St. Florian. Sklaroff later achieved her Master of Fine Arts from the Parsons School of Design in New York City, where she studied under luminaries such as Faith Ringgold and Glenn Goldberg.

#13875

Susie Ganch

#190752

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Susie Ganch is a first generation American artist of Hungarian heritage. She is a sculptor, jeweler, educator, and founder and director of Radical Jewelry Makeover. Ganch received her Bachelors in Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Geology in 1994 and her Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997.

#13876

Afaf Zurayk

#111055

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Afaf Zurayk is a Lebanese multimedia artist and poet living and working in Beirut, Lebanon. Education and teaching Born in Beirut, Afaf Zurayk graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1970 with a BA in fine arts with distinction, and obtained an MA in Islamic art from Harvard University in 1972. She taught in Lebanon at the Beirut University College and the American University of Beirut, as well as in the continuing education programs of the Corcoran College of Art and Design and Georgetown University in Washington D.C.

#13877

Wanda Ewing

#173298

Overall Influence

1970 - 2013 (43 years)

Wanda Ewing was an artist born in Omaha, Nebraska. She considered her art to be "provocative with a political edge." A common message of her art was “I’m a proud black woman, and I’m going to be hard to ignore.” Ewing studied printmaking at San Francisco Art Institute where she received her BFA in 1997. She received her MA and MFA in printmaking at the University of Iowa in 2001 and 2002, respectively. She was a tenured professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where she taught visual arts classes from 2004 to 2013. Ewing exhibited nationally and won several awards for her work.

#13878

Gail Wight

#117139

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Gail Wight is an American new media artist and professor, whose work fuses art with biology, neurology, and technology. Popular media Wight uses to create art include, drawing and painting, electronic sculpture, interactive sculpture, video and living mediums. Since 2003, Wight has taught at Stanford University in the Department of Art.

#13879

Emily R Mikeska

#192431

Overall Influence

#13880

Đorđe Trifunović

#169070

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Đorđe Trifunović is a Serbian literary scholar and literary historian of the University of Belgrade. Life and Work Trifunoviić attended the primary school and the secondary school in his native place, then he studied at the former Department of Yugoslav literature and Serbo-Croatian language of Belgrade’s Philological Faculty with focus on medieval Serbian literature, graduated with diploma in 1957, with Magister degree in 1961, and obtained his doctorate with thesis on Serbian medieval records about Knez Lazar and the Battle of Kosovo in 1965. He became assistant at the Philogical Faculty...

#13881

Allison Smith

#168579

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Allison Smith is an American artist who is based in Oakland, California. Smith's work draws from American history to create artworks which combine social practice, performance, and craft-based sculpture.

#13882

Julie Freeman

#142537

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Julie Freeman is an artist whose work spans visual, audio and digital art forms and explores the relationship between science, nature and how humans interact with it. Biography Freeman's work has focused on using electronic technologies to ‘translate nature’ – whether it is through the sound of torrential rain dripping on a giant rhubarb leaf, a pair of mobile concrete speakers who lurk in galleries haranguing passersby with fractured sonic samples, or by providing an interactive platform from which to view the flap, twitch and prick of dogs' ears.

#13883

Maggie Michael

#181893

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Maggie Michael is an American painter. Born in Milwaukee, Michael has spent much of her career in Washington, D.C. A 1996 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, from which she received a BFA, with honors, she received her MA from San Francisco State University in 2000 and her MFA from American University in 2002. She has received numerous awards during her career, including a grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation in 2004, the same year in which she was given a Young Artist Grant by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities; she has also worked with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

#13884

Cherine Fahd

#187806

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Cherine Fahd is an Australian artist who works in photography and video performance. She is also Associate Professor in Visual Communication at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia and has published in academic journals, photographic and art publications, and in news and media. Her work has been shown in Australia, Israel, Greece and Japan. She has received numerous grants, and has been awarded residencies in India and in Sydney at the Carriageworks.

#13885

Gesche Würfel

#188438

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Gesche Würfel is a visual artist born in Bremerhaven, Germany, and based in the United States since 2009. Her practice mostly focuses on photography, but also includes video, sound, installation, and urban interventions.

#13886

Hannah Rickards

#115176

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Hannah Rickards is a British artist. She has won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women and the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Visual and Performing Arts. Life and work Rickards was born in London. She studied at Central Saint Martins and now teaches there.

#13887

Sheida Soleimani

#122060

Overall Influence

1990 - Present (36 years)

Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian-American multimedia artist, activist, and professor. Her works have generated conversations in the field of 'constructed' tableau photography, as well as the intersections of art and protest, with a focus on Iranian human-rights violations.

#13888

Yang Jiachi

#42684

Overall Influence

1919 - 2006 (87 years)

Yang Jiachi was a Chinese aerospace engineer and a specialist in satellite control and automation. A participant in the development of China's first satellites and the developer of the attitude control system for recoverable satellites, he was awarded the Two Bombs, One Satellite Meritorious Medal in 1999. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the International Academy of Astronautics. The asteroid 11637 Yangjiachi is named after him.

#13889

Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal

1936 - 1989 (53 years)

Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal was a Bangladeshi songwriter, poet, essayist, critic and presenter. In his early life, he was a singer on East Bengal radio and television. He was a professor of Bengali literature at the University of Rajshahi and worked for the government as the Director General of the Bangla Academy from 1986 until his death. He was awarded Ekushey Padak by the Government of Bangladesh in 1987. He published only three collections of poetry before he died of a heart attack in 1989.

#13890

Anathon Aall

1867 - 1943 (76 years)

Anathon August Fredrik Aall was a Norwegian academic, philosopher and psychologist. Originally educated as a theologian, he became a professor of philosophy at University of Oslo. Background He was born at Nesseby in Finnmark, Norway. He was a son of vicar Niels Anton Aall and his wife Mathilde Susanne Dahl . His grandfather, Hans Cato Aall , was a Member of Parliament and mayor of Hammerfest. He was also a great-great-great-grandson of Nicolai Benjamin Aall, and a great-great-grandnephew of Niels, Jørgen and Jacob Aall.

#13891

Theodor Puschmann

Theodor Puschmann

1844 - 1899 (55 years)

Theodor Puschmann was a German psychiatrist and one of the founders of the history of medicine as a discipline. His "diagnosis" of Richard Wagner's supposed mental illness was a significant contribution to the idea of degenerate music.

#13892

Lane Mitchell

1907 - 1988 (81 years)

Lane Mitchell was an American ceramic engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the head of the Department of Ceramic Engineering there, now known as Georgia Tech's School of Materials Science and Engineering.

#13893

John White

Sir John White or Whyte of Aldershot and London was Lord Mayor of London 1563-64. He was knighted by Elizabeth I in 1564. He lived during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey, Mary I, and Elizabeth I.

#13894

Frank Dengler

1853 - 1879 (26 years)

Franz Xavier Dengler was an American sculptor. Biography He went abroad while young, studied in the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, and received there in 1874 a silver medal for his group the "Sleeping Beauty." He was for a short time an instructor in modeling in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, but resigned in 1877 on account of failing health, and moved to Covington, Kentucky, and afterward to Cincinnati. Among his works are "Azzo and Melda" , an ideal head of "America," and several portrait busts.

#13895

De Scott Evans

1847 - 1898 (51 years)

De Scott Evans was an American painter known for working in a number of genres. Raised in Indiana, he spent much of his career in Ohio and then moved to New York City. His posthumous reputation is largely based on a number of trompe-l'œil still lifes that have been attributed to him.

#13896

John Bascom Crenshaw

1861 - 1942 (81 years)

John Bascom Crenshaw was the head of the Department of Modern Languages at the Georgia Institute of Technology for 38 years, and also served as the school's first athletic director, in which capacity he started Georgia Tech's lacrosse team.

#13897

A. Diedrich Wackerbarth

1813 - 1884 (71 years)

Athanasius Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth was a translator and hymnwriter, but he is known especially for his 1849 translation of Beowulf. While working at the Astronomical Observatory in Uppsala, Sweden, he published several papers on astronomy.

#13898

Henry Lee Graves

1813 - 1881 (68 years)

Henry Lee Graves was the president of Baylor University from 1846 to 1851. Biography Henry Lee Graves, son of Thomas Graves, was born in Yanceyville, North Carolina in 1813. He married Rebecca Williams Graves on February 3, 1836. Rebecca, from Caswell County, North Carolina, was Graves's first cousin once-removed. Graves and Rebecca had four daughters as well as two sons . Rebecca died in 1865. Seven years later, Graves married Myra Lusk Crumpler, a wealthy widow who survived him by twenty-one years.

#13899

Domenico Morelli

Domenico Morelli

1823 - 1901 (78 years)

Domenico Morelli was an Italian painter, who mainly produced historical and religious works. Morelli was immensely influential in the arts of the second half of the 19th century, both as director of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples, but also because of his rebelliousness against institutions: traits that flourished into the passionate, often patriotic, Romantic and later Symbolist subjects of his canvases. Morelli was the teacher of Vincenzo Petrocelli and Ulisse Caputo.

#13900

Adam Abramowicz

1710 - 1776 (66 years)

Adam Abramowicz was a Polish Jesuit. He taught eloquence, philosophy and moral theology, and also contributed to the construction of several churches and colleges. He entered the Society of Jesus on August 20, 1726, in Vilnius. In the years 1743–1744 he was a prefect of the Jesuit schools and in the years 1744–1748 was a professor of philosophy at Vilnius University.

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