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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#1851

Philip Hazel

#39200

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Philip Hazel is a computer programmer best known for writing the Exim mail transport agent in 1995 and the PCRE regular expression library in 1997. He was employed by the University of Cambridge Computing Service until he retired at the end of September 2007. In 2009 Hazel wrote an autobiographical memoir about his computing career which he updated in 2017.

#1852

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen

#20518

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen is a Danish engineer and computer scientist. He is best known for his pioneering work on the World Wide Web and subsequent work on computer network protocols. Biography Henrik Frystyk Nielsen was born 1 August 1969 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

#1853

Dennis W. Dickson

#56228

Overall Influence

#1854

Ilkka Tuomi

#29658

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Ilkka Tuomi is a Finnish computer scientist, noted for writings on the subject of the Internet. Works Ilkka Tuomi has written books, including Networks of Innovation: Change and Meaning in the Age of the Internet which develops theory of open innovation based on analysis of Internet-related innovations and open source, and Corporate Knowledge: Theory and Practice of Intelligent Organizations, which develops theory of knowledge management.

#1855

Maarten de Rijke

Maarten de Rijke

#44938

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Maarten de Rijke is a Dutch computer scientist. His work initially focused on modal logic and knowledge representation, but since the early years of the 21st century he has worked mainly in information retrieval. His work is supported by grants from the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek , public-private partnerships, and the European Commission .

#1856

Jure Leskovec

#55625

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (44 years)

Jure Leskovec is a Slovenian computer scientist, entrepreneur and associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University focusing on networks. He was the chief scientist at Pinterest. Early life and education In 2004, Leskovec received a Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, researching semantic networks-based creation of abstracts, using machine learning; in 2008 he received a PhD in Computational and Statistical Learning from the Carnegie Mellon University.

#1857

Baruch Awerbuch

#41384

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Baruch Awerbuch is an Israeli-American computer scientist and a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University. He is known for his research on distributed computing. Academic biography Awerbuch was educated at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, earning a bachelor's degree in 1978, a master's degree in 1982, and a Ph.D. in 1984 under the supervision of Shimon Even. He worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral researcher, faculty member in applied mathematics, and research associate in computer science from 1984 until 1994, when he joined the Johns Hopkins fa...

#1858

Sanjeev Khanna

#45866

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Sanjeev Khanna is an Indian-American computer scientist. He is currently a Henry Salvatori professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include approximation algorithms, hardness of approximation, combinatorial optimization, and sublinear algorithms.

#1859

Stephen Brewster

#51601

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Stephen Brewster FRSE is the Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, UK, where he runs the Multimodal Interaction Group. His main research interest is multimodal human-computer interaction, sound and haptics and gestures. Brewster received a PhD at the Human-Computer Interaction Group at the University of York. He organized the Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services several times and is the organiser for the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems alongside Geraldine Fitzpatrick.

#1860

Vladimir Arlazarov

Vladimir Arlazarov

#35179

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Vladimir L’vovich Arlazarov is a Russian computer scientist born in Moscow. Research work In 1965 at Alexander Kronrod's laboratory at the Moscow Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics , Vladimir Arlazarov co-developed the ITEP Chess Program, together with Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Anatoly Uskov and Alexander Zhivotovsky, advised by Russian chess master Alexander Bitman and three-time world champion Mikhail Botvinnik.

#1861

David L. Dill

#35430

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

David Lansing Dill is a computer scientist and academic noted for contributions to formal verification, electronic voting security, and computational systems biology. In 2013, Dill was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for the development of techniques to verify hardware, software, and electronic voting systems.

#1862

Andy Harter

#29475

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Andrew Charles Harter is a British computer scientist, best known as the founder of RealVNC, where he was CEO until March 2018. Education and early life Born in Yorkshire in 1961, Harter attended the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield. He went on to the University of Cambridge, where he studied Mathematics and Computer Science as an undergraduate student of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and a postgraduate student of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His doctoral thesis, supervised by Andy Hopper, was judged the best UK Computer Science dissertation of 1990.

#1863

Yasuo Matsuyama

Yasuo Matsuyama

#40941

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Yasuo Matsuyama is a Japanese researcher in machine learning and human-aware information processing. Matsuyama is a Professor Emeritus and an Honorary Researcher of the Research Institute of Science and Engineering of Waseda University.

#1864

Lorrie Cranor

#25954

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Lorrie Faith Cranor, D.Sc. is the FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and is the director of the Carnegie Mellon Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory. She has served as Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission, and she was formerly a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Board of Directors. Previously she was a researcher at AT&T Labs-Research and taught in the Stern School of Business at New York University. She has authored over 110 research papers on online privacy, phishing and semantic attacks, spam...

#1865

Ryan S. Baker

#33837

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Ryan S. Baker is professor of education and computer science at the University of Pennsylvania, and also directs the Penn Center for Learning Analytics. He is known for his role in establishing the educational data mining scientific community, for the Baker Rodrigo Ocumpaugh Monitoring Protocol , and for establishing the first automated detector of student disengagement. He was awarded the Educational Research Award for 2018 by the Council of Scientific Society Presidents.

#1866

Geoff Webb

#47182

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Geoffrey I. Webb is Professor of Computer Science at Monash University, founder and director of Data Mining software development and consultancy company G. I. Webb and Associates, and former editor-in-chief of the journal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Before joining Monash University he was on the faculty at Griffith University from 1986 to 1988 and then at Deakin University from 1988 to 2002.

#1867

John Makhoul

#28789

Overall Influence

John Makhoul is a Lebanese-American computer scientist who works in the field of speech and language processing. Dr. Makhoul's work on linear predictive coding was used in the establishment of the Network Voice Protocol, which enabled the transmission of speech signals over the ARPANET. Makhoul is recognized in the field for his vital role in the areas of speech and language processing, including speech analysis, speech coding, speech recognition and speech understanding. He has made a number of significant contributions to the mathematical modeling of speech signals, including his work on linear prediction, and vector quantization.

#1868

Daniel Cremers

#29204

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Daniel Cremers is a German computer scientist, Professor of Informatics and Mathematics and Chair of Computer Vision & Artificial Intelligence at the Technische Universität München. His research foci are computer vision, mathematical image, partial differential equations, convex and combinatorial optimization, machine learning and statistical inference.

#1869

Bill Woodcock

#31725

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Bill Woodcock is the executive director of Packet Clearing House, the international organization responsible for providing operational support and security to critical Internet infrastructure, including Internet exchange points and the core of the domain name system; the chairman of the Foundation Council of Quad9; the president of WoodyNet; and the CEO of EcoTruc and EcoRace, companies developing electric vehicle technology for work and motorsport. Bill founded one of the earliest Internet service providers, and is best known for his 1989 development of the anycast routing technique that is ...

#1870

Mary Beth Rosson

#41870

Overall Influence

Mary Beth Rosson is the director of graduate programs and professor at the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology. Rosson also co-directs the collaboration and innovation lab. Most of her research concentrates on End User Programming, Computer Supported Cooperative Work , and Human-Computer Interaction . Prior to teaching at Penn State, Rosson taught at the Virginia Tech Computer Science department for 10 years and worked as a research staff manager at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center for 11 years. Rosson also served as the Dean for the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology from 2014 to 2016.

#1871

Cordelia Schmid

#56820

Overall Influence

#1872

Michael Spivey

#43500

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Michael Spivey is a British computer scientist at the University of Oxford. Spivey was born in 1960 and educated at Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School in York, England. He studied mathematics at Christ's College, Cambridge and then undertook a DPhil in computer science on the Z notation at Wolfson College, Oxford and the Programming Research Group, part of the Oxford University Computing Laboratory.

#1873

Steven Swanson

#23683

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Steven Roy Swanson is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut. Swanson has flown two shuttle flights, STS-117 and STS-119, and one Soyuz flight, TMA-12M. All of the flights were to the International Space Station. He has logged over 195 days in space and completed five spacewalks totaling 28 hours and 5 minutes. Swanson has served in other roles at NASA, such as a CAPCOM for both International Space Station and Space Shuttle missions. His awards and honors include the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal and the JSC Certificate of Accommodation. Prior to becoming a NASA astronaut, Swanson worked for GTE in Phoenix, Arizona, as a software engineer.

#1874

Ariel D. Procaccia

#47529

Overall Influence

Ariel D. Procaccia is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. He was previously an associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known for his research in artificial intelligence and theoretical computer science, especially for his work on computational aspects of game theory, social choice, and fair division. He is the founder of Spliddit, a fair division website.

#1875

Patrick Lincoln

#43298

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Patrick Denis Lincoln is an American computer scientist leading the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International. Educated at MIT and then Stanford, he joined SRI in 1989 and became director of the CSL around 1998. He previously held positions with ETA Systems, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and MCC.

#1876

Paul Resnick

#37955

Overall Influence

Paul Resnick is Michael D. Cohen Collegiate Professor of Information and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs at the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Education Paul Resnick was born in New York and attended the University of Michigan for his undergraduate studies. He received a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992 in Computer Science. After graduating from MIT, Resnick worked at AT&T Labs and AT&T Bell Labs and was an assistant Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Resnick became an assistant professor at the University of Michi...

#1877

Christopher Ahlberg

#19639

Overall Influence

Christopher Ahlberg, born 1968, is a Swedish/American computer scientist and executive. Ahlberg is the co-founder and CEO of Recorded Future, as well as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Hult International Business School.

#1878

Farid F. Abraham

#36466

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Farid F. Abraham is an American scientist. He has pioneered new methods of using computer modeling in the fields of fracture mechanics, membrane dynamics and phase transformation behavior of matter. He has written two textbooks and over 200 papers published in international journals. He won the Aneesur Rahman Prize in Computational Physics, which is the highest prize given by the American Physical Society.

#1879

John Klensin

#21096

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

John C. Klensin is a political scientist and computer science professional who is active in Internet-related issues. Career His career includes 30 years as a principal research scientist at MIT, including a period as INFOODS Project Coordinator for the United Nations University, distinguished engineering fellow at MCI WorldCom, and Internet architecture vice president at AT&T; he is now an independent consultant.

#1880

Kevin Lano

#38461

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Kevin C. Lano is a British computer scientist. Life and work Kevin Lano studied at the University of Reading, attaining a first class degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, and the University of Bristol where he completed his doctorate. He was an originator of formal object-oriented techniques , and developed a combination of UML and formal methods in a number of papers and books. He was one of the founders of the Precise UML group, who influenced the definition of UML 2.0. Lano published the book Advanced Systems Design with Java, UML and MDA in 2005. He is also the editor of UML 2 Se...

#1881

Michael O'Boyle

#43355

Overall Influence

Michael O'Boyle is a professor of Computing and Director of the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture at the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. Education O'Boyle received a Master of Science degree in computer science from the University of Manchester in 1990. He completed his PhD at the University of Manchester in 1992 under the supervision of John Gurd.

#1882

Dan Connolly

#34996

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Dan Connolly is an American computer scientist who was closely involved with the creation of the World Wide Web as a member of the World Wide Web Consortium . Early years and education Connolly was born in 1967 and grew up with four siblings in Prairie Village, in the Kansas City metropolitan area, where he attended Bishop Miege High School. From 1986 to 1990 he attended University of Texas at Austin, earning a B.S. in computer science.

#1883

Anish Kapoor

#1473

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor, is a British-Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. Born in Mumbai, Kapoor attended the elite all-boys Indian boarding school The Doon School, before moving to the UK to begin his art training at Hornsey College of Art and, later, Chelsea School of Art and Design.

#1884

Elie Bursztein

#29193

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (44 years)

Elie Bursztein, born 1 June 1980 in France, is a French computer scientist and software engineer. He currently leads Google’s Security and Anti-Abuse Research Team. Education and early career Bursztein obtained a computer engineering degree from EPITA in 2004, a master’s degree in computer science from Paris Diderot University/ENS in 2005, and a PhD in computer science from École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay in 2008 with a dissertation titled Anticipation games: Game theory applied to network security. His PhD advisor was Jean Goubault-Larrecq.

#1885

James Gillogly

#33817

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

James J. Gillogly is an American computer scientist and cryptographer. Biography Early life His interest in cryptography stems from his boyhood, as did his interest in mathematics. By junior high he was inventing his own ciphers and challenging his father, entomologist Lorin Gillogly, to solve them.

#1886

Arthur Zimek

#50007

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Arthur Zimek is a professor in data mining, data science and machine learning at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. He graduated from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Munich, Germany, where he worked with Prof. Hans-Peter Kriegel. His dissertation on "Correlation Clustering" was awarded the "SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award 2009 Runner-up" by the Association for Computing Machinery.

#1887

George Stroumboulopoulos

George Stroumboulopoulos

#7463

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

George Mark Paul Stroumboulopoulos is a Canadian media personality. He is one of Canada's most popular broadcasters and best known as formerly being a VJ for the Canadian music television channel MuchMusic. He was also the host and co-executive producer of the CBC Television talk show George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight from 2005 to 2014. From 2014 to 2016, Stroumboulopoulos worked for Rogers Media, anchoring Hockey Night in Canada and the NHL on Rogers. , he is a radio host on CBC Music. Most recently, he joined Apple Music Radio as host of a Monday to Thursday live show.

#1888

Mark A. O'Neill

Mark A. O'Neill

#39236

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Mark A. O'Neill is an English computational biologist with interests in artificial intelligence, systems biology, complex systems and image analysis. He is the creator and lead programmer on a number of computational projects including the Digital Automated Identification SYstem for automated species identification and PUPS P3, an organic computing environment for Linux.

#1889

Abbe Mowshowitz

#25082

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Abbe Mowshowitz is an American academic, a professor of computer science at the City College of New York and a member of the Doctoral Faculty in Computer Science at The City University of New York who works in the areas of the organization, management, and economics of information systems; social and policy implications of information technology; network science; and graph theory. He is known for his work on virtual organization, a concept he introduced in the 1970s on information commodities, on the social implications of computing and on the complexity of graphs and networks.

#1890

Erik Meijer

#44967

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Erik Meijer is a Dutch computer scientist, entrepreneur, and tie-dye enthusiast. From 2000 to early 2013 he was a software architect for Microsoft where he headed the Cloud Programmability Team. He then founded Applied Duality Inc. in 2013. Before that, he was an associate professor at Utrecht University. Since 2015 he has been a Director of Engineering at Facebook. He received his Ph.D. from Nijmegen University in 1992.

#1891

Rüdiger Urbanke

#29172

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Rüdiger Leo Urbanke is an Austrian computer scientist and professor at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne . Life Urbanke studied at the Technical University of Vienna with the diploma as an electrical engineer in 1988 and at the Washington University in St. Louis with the master's degree in 1992 and his doctorate in 1995. He then worked at Bell Laboratories.

#1892

Don Fussell

#43724

Overall Influence

Don Fussell is an American computer scientist, currently the Trammell Crow Regents Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and the chairman of its computer science department. His research interests are in computer architecture, computer graphics, and computer systems. Dr. Fussell is the Director of the UT Laboratory for Realtime Graphics and Parallel Systems and an IC2 Fellow. He holds memberships with the Computer Engineering Research Center, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

#1893

Gheorghe Păun

#29552

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Gheorghe Păun is a computer scientist from Romania, prominent for work on membrane computing and the P system. Păun studied mathematics at the University of Bucharest, obtaining an MSc. in 1974 and a PhD in 1977 under the direction of Solomon Marcus. He has been a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy since 1990. Păun was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2006, and a titular member of the Romanian Academy in 2012. He supervised the PhD thesis of 5 students. In 2016, he was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa Scientiarum.

#1894

Scott Vanstone

#31113

Overall Influence

1947 - 2014 (67 years)

Scott A. Vanstone was a mathematician and cryptographer in the University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics. He was a member of the school's Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research, and was also a founder of the cybersecurity company Certicom. He received his PhD in 1974 at the University of Waterloo, and for about a decade worked principally in combinatorial design theory, finite geometry, and finite fields. In the 1980s he started working in cryptography. An early result of Vanstone was an improved algorithm for computing discrete logarithms in binary fields, which inspired Don Coppe...

#1895

John Raven

#57647

Overall Influence

#1896

Matthew K. Franklin

#36555

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Matthew Keith "Matt" Franklin is an American cryptographer, and a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. Education and employment Franklin did his undergraduate studies at Pomona College, graduating in 1983 with a degree in mathematics, and was awarded a master's degree in mathematics in 1985 by the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Columbia University in 1994, under the joint supervision of Zvi Galil and Moti Yung. Prior to joining the UC Davis faculty in 2000, he worked at Xerox PARC, Bell Labs, and AT&T Labs.

#1897

Elham Kashefi

#43933

Overall Influence

Elham Kashefi is a Professor of Computer Science and Personal Chair in quantum computing at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, and a Centre national de la recherche scientifique researcher at the Sorbonne University. Her work has included contributions to quantum cryptography, verification of quantum computing, and cloud quantum computing.

#1898

Patrick Juola

#26433

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Patrick Juola is an internationally noted expert in text analysis, security, forensics, and stylometry. He is a professor of computer science at Duquesne University. As a faculty member at Duquesne University, he has authored two books and more than 100 scientific publications as well as generated more than two million dollars in Federal research grant funding. He works in the field of computer linguistics and computer security currently serving as Director of Research at Juola & Associates and Principal of the Evaluating Variations in Language Laboratory. He is credited with co-creating the original biometric word list.

#1899

Heikki Mannila

#40573

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Heikki Olavi Mannila is a Finnish computer scientist, the president of the Academy of Finland. Mannila earned his Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Helsinki under the supervision of Esko Ukkonen and for many years he was a professor at the University of Helsinki himself. From 2004 to 2008 he was Academy Professor at the Academy of Finland. He became Vice President for Academic Affairs at Aalto University in 2009, and was appointed by the Finnish government as president of the Academy of Finland for a term lasting from 2012 to 2017. The appointment was renewed for the period 2017–2022.

#1900

Daniel Weinreb

#38778

Overall Influence

1959 - 2012 (53 years)

Daniel L. Weinreb was an American computer scientist and programmer, with significant work in the environment of the programming language Lisp. Early life Weinreb was born on January 6, 1959, in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised there by his parents, Herbert and Phyllis Weinreb. He had two brothers, Bill and David, and attended Saint Ann's School.

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